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Growth · July 27, 2020

Forward

Create privacy-focused shortened URLs

Forward launched on July 27, 2020 with 123 votes, #290 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

Visit site ↗Forward alternativestop 7% of July 2020

What it does

Forward is a simple, privacy-focused alternative to free URL shorteners. Using human-readable links that only track the amount of times it's been visited, never collecting any data, with URL-screen checking against a curated deny-list.

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