Google has opted for a mixed approach: links that showed no activity in late 2024 will be deactivated, while those that did will remain usable.

Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a message saying that they will be deactivated in August will still stop working — the company started showing the deactivation message nine months ago on URLs that “showed no activity in late 2024” — but otherwise,

Google's goo.gl shortened links were supposed to stop working by August 25th, but the company has announced an update that will keep some of them alive as long as a specific condition is met.