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Review on Cloaken URL Unshortener by Bart Schwalbe

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Unsupported Shortening Service - They don't support their service so there's no guarantee that your links will work.

This is another "unsupported" shortening service (no one actually supports this). What this means is that if something goes wrong with their servers, your link may not work. If you're lucky you'll receive a message from them letting you know that they're working on it, but you'll never know when that happens because they don't offer any sort of email notification. When you finally get your shortened link back, it might be shorter than your original, which is always nice. But since they don't allow you to use your own domain, you can't point it anywhere specific. So it's kind of useless unless you're using it for a generic page that doesn't require linking to a specific location. But even then, the shortened link would probably lose information because they don't have any kind of way to maintain your page's structure, and the whole thing could disappear altogether. And if you try to change the link after they shorten it, you won't be able to because it won't be valid anymore.

Pros
  • You don't pay anything to use their services
  • Your links will stay available forever as long as their servers remain online
Cons
  • I've been having problems with my links since early last year and I haven't received any sort of support or response from them