[miso]

I don't think thats a good idea. The reason being that it allows people to gain a bit of money from their work (if they've actually did the work). Even if shortlinks are very disliked, they still help the person that gave the work to gain a bit of money from their effort. However reputable websites should be used and not dodgy counterparts.

I personally don't use shortlinks however ive thought about it before, i would most likely use something like adfly if i really wanted to, but right now, im still staying with direct-links, most people prefer quick & easy direct links instead of having a whole new tab opening, doing a captcha etc...

I think that if you gave the effort, then you should be allowed to monetise your content, you can choose to do so or not. However, it would be really nice to make it in a way that the user doesn't get bored or spammed of annoying ads while waiting.

PS: People that steal content and monetise it are just lazy people that don't really care about the quality of their content until they're gaining money from it & that it gets views