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Google's shortened links will stop working next year
All goo.gl links will be unresponsive after August 25th, 2025.
By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. If you ever used Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl before it was shut down in 2019, be warned — those links will stop working on August 25th, 2025. When Google announced in 2018 that it was shutting down goo.gl, the company encouraged developers to migrate to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL) — which has also since been depreciated.
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