Related: A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy (434 points, 2023, 100 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34609461

vedmakk 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's less a URL shortener and more a URL dodgifier.

	▲	tylervigen 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair, the one in the OP also did not shorten any of the links I gave it.

The key point here is "not shortening"