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		chriscjcj on June 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer Indeed. It's depressing to say, but stand by for a bad actor(s) to abuse this service for nefarious purposes in 3... 2... 1....

longerd2 on June 3, 2024 [–]

Yeah. When we build a new road, eventually some gangsters will drive on it. Weirdly, tech is the only place where people then look at the platform.

No one would shut down the post (DHL) for allowing a drug enterprise to send illegal substances using DHL.

So yeah, these links will be abused. What isn't abused?

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