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I think the problem with URL shorteners like Google’s that includes the company name is that to the layperson there is possibly an implied level of safety.

Here is a service that basically makes Google $0 and confuses a non-zero amount of non-technical users when it sends them to a scam website.

Also, in the age of OCR on every device they make basically no sense. You can take a picture of a long URL on a piece of paper then just copy and paste the text instantly. The URL shortener no longer serves a discernible purpose.



Shorter URLs mean fewer characters to encode in a QR code.


And how does that matter? The QR gets read either way.


No, code is smaller and more readable, also shortener means additional tracking layer


Less complex QR codes are easier to scan, especially at a distance




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