Frequently Asked Questions
Q. A crushed URL?
A. Yeah. It's like a tiny one, only not for soy milk drinking pussies.
Q. I drink beer. So what is it all about?
A. You have a URL you want to send to someone or use by yourself. It's long, and perhaps quite complicated with all those ? and = and maybe even a random sequence of gibberish. If you send it by email, chances are it will arrive with a few carriage returns thrown in that will break the link. If you want to send it with your mobile phone, you'll get very old and grumpy before you're finished typing and nothing won't matter much at that point anymore.
So we propose that you simply paste it in our crusher and push the button. You'll get an incomparably shorter one that will not only work just the same, but much better. Plus you may even manage to remember it when you're drunk with all that beer.
Q. How much does it cost?
A. Nothing.
Q. You mean it's free?
A. As in free beer, yes.
Q. Totally free?
A. Well, we'll assume you pay for your own access to the big wide web pal, but apart from that, yes.
Q. What's the catch? Will I get ads all over my URL?
A. No. In time, we may have some ads on the Yweb site itself to support our costs, but your link and the redirection process will remain totally ads free. No pop-ups, no frames, just straight clean redirection. Happy?
Q. Will that short URL expire?
A. No. If you want expiration dates buy a mackerel, or one of those disgusting French cheeses.
Q. Will it get deleted?
A. No. Unless it's a flagrant violation of our terms of service and/or a criminal offense. In which case URL deletion will only be the beginning of your problems.
Q. So it's permanent?
A. Well, keeping in mind that the Universe is inherently dynamic, it's as permanent as it gets in the grand scheme of things. After all, even the climate changes all the time.
Q. What about my privacy?
A. In a nutshell: our users' trust is the backbone of our service, so the last thing we'd mess with is you and your privacy.
There's a chapter with explicit details about this in our terms of service. Do your own reading, make an informed choice. You're supposed to be an adult after all.
Q. I've received a spam email with one of your yweb.com/xx address in it. Why are you spamming me?
A. We're not. The dudes who sent you that email however have flagrantly violated our terms of service and we would really appreciate if you could help us keeping our service useless for these jerks by filling an abuse report.
Q. A friend sent me one of your URLs, and it directed me to a really weird site. There was a donkey in a tutu and this guy he had a big...?
A. All right, all right, I don't want to hear about it. I'm just writing the FAQ here, and I don't even get paid for that, so that's way more information than I need. Please kindly report the abuse and pick up your friends more carefully in the future, thank you very much.
Q. Someone sent me one of your URLs, and it directed me to a nasty site mocking my religion/politics/favorite ice-cream flavor. Surely, I should report it as abuse?
A. That's not an abuse of our service, that's freedom of opinion. Just because you disagree with the message doesn't mean it should be wiped out—granted of course that said message doesn't explicitely call for or participate in achieving anything illegal. If someone is making an argument, consider a counter-argument rather than the strong-armed Cheka approach.
While we, like anybody else, hold personal views on many things (including but not limited to, religion and ice-cream flavors), our service is just a tool; as such, it is not meant to and cannot pass any kind of moral judgment.
We really want to keep it clean and useful for all, and hope you will fill any report of abuse as necessary—just make sure you silence the totalitarian in you before deciding what you think shall constitute an abuse, and warning us about it.
Q. What about adding this or that feature?
A. While we have our own ideas for future improvement of Yweb, we definitely welcome your suggestions. Please tell us about them.
Q. I have a problem with this service?
A. Same place: please go and tell us about it. Just change the subject to "Problem".
Q. I just came to say I love you?
A. Ditto, please go and tell us. Declarations of love fall under the "General Enquiries" topic. Yeah, we're that blasé.