Did you miss me? I am back from a great vacation spent with my wife and some close friends.
We had a great time, and I will write about my trip in some future posts, but now it is time to get back to work and bring you some great extensions for Chrome.
To help myself ease back into it though, I am actually not going to cover an extension. I want to write a quick follow-up on a previous extension I covered.
In one of my first posts in this series, I covered URL Shortener. It is basically an extension that allows you to take those tremendously long url's and shorten them down into something a bit more manageable.
I recently read in this article from Engadget that Google is shutting down the Url Shortener service.
A quick synopsis of the article is that Google is moving to Firebase Dynamic Links and they are phasing out the use of shortened links after April 13th, 2018.
They suggest that if you want to continue using shortened url's, to look into the bitly or ow.ly services.
I try my best to keep you updated about the newest and coolest stuff for Chrome, but I also want to make sure I am doing my due-diligence to inform you about things that are no longer supported or have been compromised.
Thank you for reading and helping me ease back into my schedule. Check back in a couple days for the next issue. Remember I will be covering a new extension every two days now.
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