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I'm inclined to agree that the use of large URL shorteners obfuscates things too much and can contribute to spam.

However, this is a personal domain for my use only. And I don't think you can simply dismiss the usefulness of being able to track link usage and referrers without using nasty client-side JS stuff.

I'm also using "shortcodes" rather than random IDs for most stuff so the intent isn't lost.