: All shorten url redirecting to linkbucks I have seen most of shorten url like http://owl.li/w6tUx redirecting to linkbucks site. I see even google is using this service in their posts in facebook

@Ravi8258870

Looks like your router's been hacked into and its DNS server settings have been changed.
My advice: Reset Your Router/login to your router and remove the rogue DNS server entry, change the admin password for your router.

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@Karen161

owl.li, goo.gl or any other sites are only url-shorteners. Most of them do not attach linkbucks or any other affiliate site by default, it up to the user using the service.

I believe in your case it was that whoever used owl.li pointed the URL to a linkbucks URL while Linkbucks URL was another kind of URL shortener which displays the real URL among Linkbucks ads.



To explain the steps taken:
- You have a website, say www.example-domain.com/some-specific-long-url-you-want-short (as you can see, this is too long for one line, pity)
- You go to a url-shortener (like owl.li) and insert the url.
- The url-shortener gives a short url back: owl.li/exmlp
- Some user clicks owl.li/exmlp and gets redirected to www.example-domain.com/some-specific-long-url-you-want-short

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