Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

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