Scan shortened URLs

hampus.
Hi there, my suggestion is the following: When people post shortened URLs like goo.gl, bit.ly, etc, it's hard to see what you're actually visiting before you click the link and get redirected. To prevent this, Discord could automatically unshorten such shortened URLs (from known public domains) and show the actual end link in the "links are spoopy" warning
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  • bastet_of_orion
    This is a great idea, I love it!
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  • RonkerZ

    I like this idea but it is somewhat complex to implement for discord. Unshortening the urls on the clients side may expose the ip address of your device. Perhaps there is some technical solution to let discord function as a proxy server or something but this requires additional infrastructure. It could be a Nitro feature to compensate with the cost.

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  • bastet_of_orion

    @RonkerZ There's several websites that can unshorten urls, so possibly Discord could just pass the url through the site and then pass back to the user the unshortened url - I'm not sure how they could do that, but I doubt that they would need to set up so much additional infrastructure to handle this.

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