It isn't even on by default. I signed up recently (just remembering that Feedburner did this thing with feed statistics, not knowing that they had removed the API) and it had a specific warning along the lines of "enabling this option will modify the content of your feed"
There are many reasons not to use shorteners. There is also the matter of tracking where anyone can do everything to protect people's privacy, but if they got there through an URL-shortener, they're SOL.
I often think about the implications of using Google Analytics on my sites (I use the less unsafe anonymity IP detection"), but those concerns all go out the window, if they got there by shorturl.
Is it? Google does not seem to be spending any resources on improving the product and they recently disabled the ability to show ads in your feed (which is presumably the whole reason Google got into this business in the first place).
Why? Just because every other time people gave complete control over their data and content it turned out be a bad idea and the the internet itself was invented to avoid this problem?
But it's different now, the companies involved are the ones I've read about since I was young and are therefore trustworthy and permanent. I know older people thought the same thing and turned out to be wrong every single time, but this time it's different. Why is it different? Uh ... I'll get back to you on that.
It seems weird that he uses blog-centric companies (TechCrunch, etc) as examples of companies that do, and non-blog-centric companies (GitHub, etc) as examples that don't.
TechCrunch/etc cares about the statistics FeedBurner offers since that is their core product, whereas GitHub/etc probably don't care that much.
I think it's a fair tradeoff for content-centric companies to have feedburner (now google) rewrite those links to get some very useful stats in return. This was already happening pre-acquisition and only got better afterwards.
Links get indexed quicker and get submitted to reader / google news for free.
I work at FeedBlitz and we have support (giant improvement over FeedBurner), analytics, integration with other social media for RSS distribution, easy-to-enable triggers and parsers to make the RSS part of integrated marketing communications.
The short version is that FeedBurner has a free feature called MyBrand which serves your feeds from a CNAME of your own domain. Then if you choose to leave FeedBurner, you still have full control of your feeds and permalinks. I set it up on my own domain years ago as feeds.mattcutts.com, for example.
I think this free feature of FeedBurner is one that everyone should use so that you keep feeds under your own control and served off your own domain.
Hi Matt, first thanks for getting the time to read my post, and replay.
The problem I still see is that even if you have your domain the link is messed up.
From your blog.
So if I bookmark the former, and FB dissapear you will have to create a full list of 301 redirects in your server so my links still work. Yes you have the control, but that is a lot of work.
For a serious blogger, Feedburner is a great way to reduce the traffic on your server. Many RSS readers are poorly developed and will hammer your server for no reason. Jeff Atwood wrote a great article about this a while back: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/reducing-your-websi...
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The whole reason for existence of FeedBurner is analytics. The links are used to track clicks; you can turn it off.
TL;DR: disable click tracking.
https://www.macworld.com/article/1142188/trim_twitter.html
I often think about the implications of using Google Analytics on my sites (I use the less unsafe anonymity IP detection"), but those concerns all go out the window, if they got there by shorturl.
Google has shut down many services and "broke the internet" before - what they essentially did with Reader.
Even if it takes 100 years, we don't want the internet archives to be broken.
I'm not sure what you mean about Reader though?
But it's different now, the companies involved are the ones I've read about since I was young and are therefore trustworthy and permanent. I know older people thought the same thing and turned out to be wrong every single time, but this time it's different. Why is it different? Uh ... I'll get back to you on that.
TechCrunch/etc cares about the statistics FeedBurner offers since that is their core product, whereas GitHub/etc probably don't care that much.
I think it's a fair tradeoff for content-centric companies to have feedburner (now google) rewrite those links to get some very useful stats in return. This was already happening pre-acquisition and only got better afterwards.
Links get indexed quicker and get submitted to reader / google news for free.
Here's more info: http://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/79590?hl=en
The short version is that FeedBurner has a free feature called MyBrand which serves your feeds from a CNAME of your own domain. Then if you choose to leave FeedBurner, you still have full control of your feeds and permalinks. I set it up on my own domain years ago as feeds.mattcutts.com, for example.
I think this free feature of FeedBurner is one that everyone should use so that you keep feeds under your own control and served off your own domain.
Once Google acquired Feedburner, Google made the feature free.
I'm pretty sure the consumer got a nice win here.
http://feeds.mattcutts.com/~r/mattcutts/uJBW/~3/8IurStR5fXw/
Goes to
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pubcon-2012-slides/
So if I bookmark the former, and FB dissapear you will have to create a full list of 301 redirects in your server so my links still work. Yes you have the control, but that is a lot of work.
Why not make FB links like this?
http://feeds.mattcutts.com/blog/pubcon-2012-slides/
In that case all you have to do is a 301 of feeds to www.
Hope my point is clear.
Edit: never mind. Someone found this http://www.wangarific.com/how-to-get-rid-of-feedproxy-links-...
That way you really have all the control back.