The Best URL Shorteners in 2025
Long and cumbersome URLs are a nuisance these days. Whether sharing a link on social media, embedding it in an email, or using it in a presentation, tracking parameters and complicated strings make your links look unprofessional and hard to manage. This problem worsened after Google shut down its popular URL shortening service in 2019, leaving users searching for alternatives. But there's good news: the world of URL shorteners has evolved, and there are now dozens of tools to simplify your links. As someone who has spent years testing web applications and technologies, I've tested over 45 URL shorteners this year alone...
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