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How would I know where it goes? A porn site? Phishing site?

Ah, I thought there was an undeclared pledge of ethics here at HN. Never mind.

There is, but doesn't mean that people can't abuse it.

Shorteners are frowned upon because they can be used to hide nastyware, and aren't needed; HN visually truncates links that are super long anyhow.

Point noted amicably.