How we fight short-link abuse without punishing legitimate teams

URL shorteners sit in an awkward place: legitimate teams need fast, readable links, and attackers want the same convenience to hide destinations. Our job is to reduce abuse without turning every normal campaign into a support ticket.

ShortURL.bot approaches abuse prevention as an operating system for links. We block obvious risk early, give visitors safer outcomes, preserve an audit trail for operators, and use Link Inspector-style destination review when a link needs more scrutiny.