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Also, if you want to hide the URL in the link better, just pad the end of the query string with garbage and they won't even notice it:

Or embed it with the government redirect mentioned. "Here's what Obama had to say about Google on yesterday's visit to Vermont!" http://labor.vermont.gov/LinkClick.aspx?link=http://www.goog...

Linkception. You can take that link and throw it in Google, and so on... At some point, maybe you'll hit a limit? Sounds like a fun test to run... ;)

You’ll start running into browser limits at somewhere from 2048 to 2083 characters: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427

Depends on the browser. Mobile browser URL limits used to be much shorter.

You could, of course, also use the hex representation of the ascii url to obscure it: http://www.google.com/finance/url?sa=D&q=%68%74%74%70%3a...