Google’s shortened links will stop working next year

If you ever utilized Google’s URL shortening work goo.gl earlier it was unopen down successful 2019, beryllium warned — those links volition halt moving connected August 25th, 2025. Google announced successful a blog post that “the clip has travel to crook disconnected the serving information of Google URL Shortener,” and that immoderate links successful the https://goo.gl/* format volition respond with a 404 mistake adjacent year.

Ahead of the shutdown, goo.gl links volition commencement showing an interstitial leafage connected August 23rd, 2024, notifying users that “this nexus volition nary longer enactment successful the adjacent future.” This connection volition initially look for a “percentage of existing links’’ which volition summation arsenic the deadline draws closer. Google is encouraging developers to update impacted links arsenic soon arsenic possible, however, arsenic this interstitial leafage whitethorn origin disruptions to nexus redirections.

When Google announced successful 2018 that it was shutting down goo.gl, the institution encouraged developers to migrate to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL) — which has besides since been depreciated.