Why lengthen URLs?
Perfect Pranks
Send your friends a suspiciously long link. Watch them try to figure out where it goes. Bonus points if they attempt to read the I's and l's.
Aesthetic Chaos
Why make things shorter when you can make them gloriously, unnecessarily longer? Embrace the barcode aesthetic.
Copy-Paste Nightmare
Try selecting just part of the URL. Go ahead, we'll wait. The characters look identical, making manual editing nearly impossible.