Some best practices for linking to resources

This guide comes from an article published by someone in Toestand's forum which seems to be unavailable now.

Never link directly to executables, ever:

Link to a page describing what it is instead.

Do not use "shortened" links:

In most cases we should try not to post "shortened" links, and be wary of clicking on obfuscated links in general.
Protip: checking them before you click is a good idea anyway: $ curl https://unshorten.me/s/{goo.gl/yzLPTN}

Linking to youtube content:

It’s courteous to non-Google fans to link to invidio.us or other instead of youtube:
https://invidio.us/watch?v={video_id}
http://axqzx4s6s54s32yentfqojs3x5i7faxza6xo3ehd4bzzsg2ii4fv2iid.onion/watch?v={video_id}
Alternate servers: instances.invidio.us

Linking to twitter content:

For Twitter content consider using nitter.net instead; just replace “twitter.com” with “nitter.net” in the URL

Removing tracking parameters from the urls:

Please try to remove tracking parameters from the end of querystrings, e.g. utm_source=GCHQ

Avoid linking to website that track users:

Bonus points if you avoid linking to sites with aggressive profiling if the intent is read-only. For example, linking to a Google doc if the viewer is not going to /edit (readonly) - a better choice is to link to a pastebin site instead. Also for sites behind paywalls, try using archive.is to show an archived version

Providing onion links (when they exist):

Feel free to offer onion links as alternatives in your post, some small number of people may click on those instead. DDG, NYT, Invidio.us, etc. - all mirror their sites on .onion domains