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Why no using URL Shortener's?

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They're not specifically prohibited, but they're very frequently used for less than benign purposes. When one is used for bad reasons too frequently, it's added to the word filter to stop the misuse.
 
If you don't want a super-long link taking up space, you can just use URL tags to replace it with whatever text you want. There's no real need to use a shortener with vBulletin.
 
I never click URL-shortened links anyway... why would you want to hide the real link behind a facade unless you were trying to trick someone to a silly youtube vid, or worse a malware site? As Zero82z said... just replace the display text if you don't want a super-long link, people can still see what it goes to that way ;).
 
We do not need those since VB does it automatically. And fwiw, I don't trust what those things hide anyway.
 
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