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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (creepylink.com)
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[–] _g_be@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I like an alternative that uses full words instead of a string of no sense symbols and mixed case letters.

Something like what What 3 Words does but for short URLs. That would be easy to convey and type

[–] 2910000@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a very good idea.
Beside the number of permutations it gives, another benefit of using three words is they could form the border of the QR code, with the fourth side being the domain name

[–] _g_be@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yessss