You know what? If someone shows me a shortcode on my feature phone, or on someone else's device, or it's printed on a leaf of paper, or if I'm in a library using library computers, a shortened URL like that is way easier to type in, or write it down by hand.
However you slice it, even after we conquer character limits and font rendering and storage space for every electronic device, human beings will still be using "the analog hole" to copy code like that.
It's interesting to imagine how different the entire security landscape would be, if every human was natively capable of easily transcribing many more bytes of data and noticing when two sequences don't match.
However you slice it, even after we conquer character limits and font rendering and storage space for every electronic device, human beings will still be using "the analog hole" to copy code like that.