Why you should control your own URL shortening service

While this is pretty funny it also raises the valid point that if you do not control your own URL shortening domain – this could happen to you too.

 

Heinz forced to apologise after QR code on ketchup bottle linked to hardcore porn site

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/heinz-forced-to-apologise-after-qr-code-on-ketchup-bottle-linked-to-hardcore-porn-site-10327313.html

2 thoughts on “Why you should control your own URL shortening service

  1. I don’t understand why they would have pointed to a site other than their own domain in the first place. Even if everything would have gone right, they added complexity for zero gain by using a domain shortening service.

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