Received a share.google link and checked what it did: It redirects to something with URL format “https://www.google.com/share.google?q=SOME_CODE”, which is a normal page that IS the target as far as curl and such tools are concerned but redirects on the browser probably using Javascript, so it will not redirect it with our normal tools. It will need custom code or Javascript execution. So, they knew what they were doing and used their powers for evil, as they usually do now.

I was hoping for a self-hosted resource, not a remote API, since this is the Selfhosted community

It is not enough for the increasingly common share.google links for example, and i bet there’s more like this

This site is in the US, is there a mirror for if/when they decide to target it?

Thing is, a well configured Linux system will just work, and continue to work for the foreseeable future. You have zero guarantee of this with Windows.

After being in tech for like 30 years, i’d say that every OS sucks, but the way they suck and the intensity of said sucking is very much not the same across them. Linux VERY MUCH has issues, yes, but most of the time they’re in your power to diagnose and fix, in Windows the main troubleshooting advice has remained mostly the same across decades, the 3 R’s, Reboot, Reinstall, Reformat, because many times you just don’t know and CANNOT know what went wrong.