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(like a url shortner)
URL shorteners are the devil's work, a slightly useful idea which has been co-opted by the twats who ruined the internet as a way to monetise very fucking click, and in the meantime turn every simple request into a string of ten separate redirects. </rant>
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URL shorteners are the devil's work, a slightly useful idea which has been co-opted by the twats who ruined the internet as a way to monetise very fucking click, and in the meantime turn every simple request into a string of ten separate redirects.
Including the one used on this site, which makes it very easy to mess around with people:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news (does not go where you expect it to, is perfectly safe though...)
URL shorteners without a way to preview are especially annoying.
Greenbank
Not sure we can affect the code on site..
Background:
We're launching a new ad campaign this week. The landing page has a specific piece of content (4th bit down the page) that we want to direct to.
Issue: on desktop, this works absolutely fine. On mobile / tablet devices, it sends users to the 3rd piece of content (no idea why).
The client is fine with sending the user that clicks on the ad on a mobile to the top of the page but the site we're serving the ad from is device agnostic so it's not like we can just use one url on their mobile site vs desktop site.
Usually, I'd use our adserver to build out creative rules but as this is a text link (clicktag) and not an image, our adserver won't do that.
I was hoping someone knew of a tool (like a url shortner) that might have this function.