Very much this.
Comment on Any suggestions for a link UNshortener?
antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
I understand this is not exactly what you’re asking for, but if you have access to a terminal, you can “unshorten” a link with:
curl --head -L https://example.com/short | grep: location
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
jherazob@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
It is not enough for the increasingly common share.google links for example, and i bet there's more like this
jherazob@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
Received a share.google link and checked what it did: It redirects to something with URL format "https://www.google.com/share.google?q=SOME_CODE", which is a normal page that IS the target as far as curl and such tools are concerned but redirects on the browser probably using Javascript, so it will not redirect it with our normal tools. It will need custom code or Javascript execution. So, they knew what they were doing and used their powers for evil, as they usually do now.