In this era of technology and interconnectedness, people hardly think twice about sharing web links online. But those lengthy URLs can mess up your social media posts, emails, and other digital chats.

Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are ...

Google may have partially walked back a plan to deprecate all shortened goo.gl links, but millions of links that rely on the link shortener will still break before the end of August. Links created ...