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so next year, Google will break millions of goo.gl links all across the internet. they already shut off the ability to shorten new URLs and it would be extremely easy for them to leave the existing ones up. but Google doesn’t care about the web, so they won’t.

Shortened goo.gl URLs will all break in late 2025

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

developers.googleblog.com

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@davidcelis How much can it possibly cost to keep serving these as static redirects?