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Paid $50 for a broken redirect chain, learned a lesson
Found a link on an old forum that promised free ebook downloads, but every click bounced through 5 spammy pages before hitting a 404. Spent $50 on a 'link unshortener' tool that turned out to be a free browser extension, so that stung. The real win was spotting a pattern in the redirects, now I can smell a fake URL mile away. Anyone else dropped cash on junk to fix a cursed link when the answer was just right-click and inspect?
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foster.ruby9d ago
Three bucks sounds like the real price for that lesson, not fifty. You paid for a shortcut when the free path was sitting right there in the browser tools. That old forum link probably had a simple tracking parameter hidden in it, and right-click inspect would've shown that in under a minute. Picking up on redirect patterns is useful, but you could've learned that by just looking at the URL bar each hop. The tool didn't fail you, the expectation that someone would fix it for you did. Next time, just paste the link into a text editor and break it apart piece by piece.
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