When comparing Elbo vs is.gd, the Slant community recommends Elbo for most people. In the question“What are the best URL shorteners?” Elbo is ranked 21st while is.gd is ranked 35th. The most important reason people chose Elbo is:
The code is available on [Github](https://github.com/boolean-world/elbo).
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Pros
Pro Open source
The code is available on Github.
Pro Has an extension for Chrome, Opera and Firefox
Pro Links last forever
The links created by is.gd will never be deleted down the road, meaning you can continue to use them years down the road without worry.
Pro 19 characters long
Including the "https://" at the start of links, short links are typically 19 characters long (so 11 characters plus the https://).
Cons
Con No central location to see all your links
If you want to see data for your short links, you will have to visit each link individually and adding a dash (-) at the end of the link, or enabling automatic previews.