Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? 321
Ant snips from Royal Pingdom this excerpt: "Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it. We're talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to add intermediate steps to sample what we click on before they send us on to our real destination. This has been going on for a long time and is slowly starting to build into something of a redirect hell on the Web. And it has a price."
bit.ly (Score:0, Funny)
To be honest the web was getting a bit fast... (Score:5, Funny)
... so they had to find yet another way to slow things down... so the web could live up to its reputation of "world wide wait" ;)
My Idea (Score:5, Funny)
Or you could always just make a really long way to get to someone who'll never give you up, never let you down.
Re:How do you get offenders to stop? (Score:3, Funny)
What an uncharacteristically even-handed Slashdot response!
You must be a noob.
Re:How do you get offenders to stop? (Score:3, Funny)
Funny just this morning I noticed that it took at least 5 redirects or more for Google to let me login to Analytics. It felt like my browser had a life of its own!
Sure, but you're already saving 2-5 seconds per search with Google instant, so you still come out ahead.
Re:It's a shame too... (Score:5, Funny)
Said the Rich Executive: (Score:2, Funny)
Oh dear God yes! We can abuse JavaScript more to get more clicks!
Re:How do you get offenders to stop? (Score:2, Funny)
So you're saying the internet really is a series of tubes!
Infinite loop (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How do you get offenders to stop? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, so THAT'S why Slashdot doesn't support a wider Unicode character set.
Re:Techie price greater than luser price (Score:1, Funny)
Fuck you if you want to spend your time watching me
Oh, come on! What am I going to fap to now?
Shady URL's (Score:5, Funny)
Personally, I find the trend of redirecting to innocent sites via shady URL's much more alarming: http://5z8.info/foodporn_e0g0l_taliban-meetup [5z8.info]
(I promise I'll get modded "troll" by someone who glanced at the link and assumed the worst. Hard to blame them, but I do love using those links whenever possible...)
Re:It's a shame too... (Score:4, Funny)
Myself, I prefer shady urls.
http://www.shadyurl.com/ [shadyurl.com]
http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]
becomes
http://5z8.info/aryanbr0ther00d_l9e5b_malicious-cookie [5z8.info]
Re:How do you get offenders to stop? (Score:3, Funny)
Fuck off!
Creds. NOW!!!
Re:How do you get offenders to stop? (Score:3, Funny)
Write in japanese and suddenly you can write a whole novel in 140 characters.