You don’t even need demand eternal support. Just say that if manufacturers want their product to expire like milk, then they can damn well print an expiry date on the package, too.

How would "“Will cease functioning on <x>” affect consumer purchasing decisions?

I’ve only ever seen goog.le looks used in spam and phishing emails, so I’m not particularly sad about this

Of course, there’s roughly eighty million other folks who think they’ve each done a short link provider better, somehow, so this won’t make much of a difference beyond not relying on the bots at Google to deal with abuse problems.

Yeah, at a certain scale you’re not paying for the technology… you’re paying for a scapegoat.

“We just love our customers so much, it makes us crazy sometimes…”

I think their point is that when everyone’s income is $0/hr price becomes pretty much irrelevant (unless also $0)

Put another way: I’m not going to believe in a new product more than the vendor does, because that’s stupid. And we’ve had it demonstrated time and time again that the vendors don’t believe in their products.