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Only insofar as Google might wish to prevent it since their brand was on the shortened url you clicked to get there. And people not having malware is surely good for Google indirectly.

Presumably ACME used the link shortener because they wanted to put the shortened link somewhere, so someone’s going to click things like these. If Google can just delete a lot of it why not?



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