#killedbygoogle
- Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl links will stop working on August 25th, 2025, resulting in 404 errors.
- Starting August 23rd, 2024, goo.gl links will show an interstitial page warning users of the upcoming shutdown.
- Google initially suggested migrating to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL), which has also since been deprecated.
If they just released the db, I think there are be many who’d be happy to host the service. But knowing Google, they probably won’t do shit.
The Internet Archive could archive them forever.
Archiveteam has had a project trying to archive all of them they’ve seen for a few years now. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam
That could probably cause more trouble that it’s worth.
How would that work if Google could the domain? Or are you saying they’d release the domain as well?
I don’t expect that. It should be trivial to have a redirect addon.