Link Anonymizer Anonymously visit links in YOURLS, including referring sites and original URLs. Sometimes you want to click a link, but you don’t want to have your YOURLS installation be the refferer. So you right click, copy the URL, paste it in your address bar. Instead, use Link Anonymizer to generate a link for you […]
In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of using YOURLS, a self-hosted link-shortening service. I’m finding that YOURLS is great, but it’s not perfect. Some of the issues I have experience are part of what you get using most URL shortener services. Some of the downsides of using link shorteners are: Google Analytics doesn’t […]
I was having trouble finding the right URL shortening service. My requests for shortening were not too picky. I wanted two simple features: Good statistics that are visible only to administrators Edit the long URLs after generating shortened links …but not one service has both features: http://sn.im has editable URLs, a bookmarklet, but no stats. Oh, and […]