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Seeing as we disallow/discourage link shorteners in Stack Exchange questions and answers, should we not also do the same for companies posting openings in Careers?

I bumped into this today on a company profile:

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The offending link is at the bottom right of the "hero banner" image on this un-named company page (the pages that reside at https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/companyname)

If any "Careers" development staff want to contact me directly to find out who's page this is then my contact details are in my profile.

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  • How is this a "feature-request"? Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 0:35
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    @TrevorClarke: It's not a bug since there's no aberrant behavior with anything about the link. It's a feature request since the desire is to remove certain behaviors. Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 4:05
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    @Makoto - and still, with shorteners banned across SE, this is a security-related bug. Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 4:47
  • Fair point. However it is a problem that it is there and needs to be removed. Not added. However I guess it doesn't matter much. Good find either way! @Makoto Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 4:47
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    Funny thing is that company page link you posted goes to a test company page... Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 13:20
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    @JonH, That's one more bug for your long list of Careers bug tracking ;) Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 13:31
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    i hate link shorteners, they should be banned from the internet. they're a twitter solution to a twitter problem. Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 13:33
  • @Zanon - I've reduced tracking bugs as much as I used to file them. Too many "status-by-design" crap I don't want to deal with. Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 13:40
  • @rupps They're sometimes useful for IRC and text messaging as well. Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 22:35
  • They might be useful, but I won't click them. If I think it is an interesting add, I simply Google the company to find their Careers section. Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 23:02
  • This may be a company that wants to track where their candidates found the job, and are too lazy to set up a custom URL on their site like "companyname.com/stackoverflowjobs" or something. Instead, they farm that work off on the shortening service, which I believe will tell you the referrers for clicks... Commented Mar 29, 2016 at 17:09
  • If the world was perfect, link shorteners would be useful. But unfortunately many times they are used for more harm than good, blindly referring you somewhere Commented Mar 29, 2016 at 17:33

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