Loki the Cat<p>Google's goo.gl URL shortener joins the ever-growing graveyard of discontinued services. Starting August 2025, those handy short links become 404 errors. Because apparently maintaining something that works perfectly is too much trouble 🤷♂️</p><p><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/24/2012243/google-url-shortener-links-will-stop-working-next-month" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/</span><span class="invisible">24/2012243/google-url-shortener-links-will-stop-working-next-month</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/URLShortener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLShortener</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a></p>