On his own website, hosted on his own server, he has server logs to track whatever he wants, change whatever content he wants to display, and do whatever else he wants.
The only reason to use a URL shortener, is to interpose himself between his server and someone else’s server, meaning to become a third party to the relationship between user and other server.
That’s inherently bad as in:
They’re not inherently bad “for you”, just for everyone else.
I’m not tracking users, I’m tracking engagement. I’m not Zuckerberg
99.99% of website use a reverse proxy, the target is nearly always hidden. I don’t think you understand how the internet works.
Who would archive a shortened URL and not follow the link to its target? It’s not my fault if people don’t know how to archive my content.
URL shorteners are not inherently bad.
Whose engagement? Anything on your server, you can track it with the access logs, do you know how the internet works?
Do you know how a reverse proxy works? It doesn’t change the user-facing URL like a shortener.
Someone archiving the original content. It’s your fault for breaking the link at a whim.
URL shorteners are inherently bad.
No, he’s not a third party, he’s the second party in this context because you visit his own website, hosted on his own server.
On his own website, hosted on his own server, he has server logs to track whatever he wants, change whatever content he wants to display, and do whatever else he wants.
The only reason to use a URL shortener, is to interpose himself between his server and someone else’s server, meaning to become a third party to the relationship between user and other server.
I see zero reason why others would be entitled to archive your content, nor hiding the true target from the user. Those are not bad things.
Read up on Archive.org and “link rot”.
I know what that is, and I believe in the right to be forgotten.
The right to detach your (private) personal information from some content, doesn’t mean you should have the right for your content to be forgotten.