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Can you elaborate? Seems interesting.
bad actors use shorteners to mask the actual url of their pages so their potential victims don't know where they're going until it is, perhaps, 'too late'
That could be, but I don't think that it should be relied upon. The shortener itself can execute malicious code, so that kind of security is, in my opinion, essentially theatre. I'd just say that don't click on links that you don't trust.
This project is for own use/use with friends/family/internally in an org etc., where trust isn't an issue. Of course, I cannot stop anyone from using it in any other way that they see fit. It can help shorten annoying long links for ease of sharing, but that's it.
Didn't down vote you, but if someone clicks a link without, at the very least, mousing over it to view the url, then you get what you get. One of the most effective anti-virus programs you can ever deploy on any system is your own prudence and discretion. It's not the fault of the url shortner, it's the moron clicking indiscriminately.
those "morons" represent the vast majority of internet users.
Dude...one of the most cornball things I've ever heard in my life but has some truth to it is 'You can't fix stupid.' It's 2026! Spool up. I would guess that the biggest portion of those morons are boomers, yet still, it's 2026. I'm sorry to sound so harsh but I really tire of the older set especially, but pretty much anyone in a technologically developed country claiming not to be technologically inclined. They had no flipping problem learning FaceBook. 'How to Use A Computer Tutorial' search turns up thousands of tutorials on that very topic. Unless you live in a remote area or a technologically underdeveloped country where technology is not readily accessible to the common man, then yeah. I'm a septuagenarian and I learned. I have no certs, or diplomas, or any thing, which should be obvious, but I get by pretty decent I'd say. It's pretty much attainable by the vast majority of people if they'd only put a little effort into it.
/rant
But it's a shortened url. You can't simply mouse over it?
Edit: oh, I think you're taking about an interstitial?
Url un-shortners exist.