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Citoid should not change to blacklisted URL shorteners
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Description

If I try to cite https://nieuws.ns.nl/spoorkaart-2023-hier-te-downloaden/ with "Cite" and "Automatic" in VisualEditor then the url is changed to https://bit.ly/3YslLe0 and cannot be saved. It was first reported at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&oldid=1155509325#Additing_citation_that_is_on_a_blacklist
The HTML of https://nieuws.ns.nl/spoorkaart-2023-hier-te-downloaden/ says:

<meta property="og:url" content="https://bit.ly/3YslLe0" />

bit.ly and some other URL shorteners like tinyurl are on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist.
URLs should not be changed to URL shorteners no matter what the site recommends.