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Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine (Kagi) (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 30 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It's punycode, it displays as japanese characters in a real browser.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago*

    For those curious, the characters are katakana (the syllabary often used in Japan for foreign words, onomatopoeia, etc) and they'd be read as "ma-ri-u-su", which is possibly intended to represent "Marius" under Japanese spelling conventions.

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  • [+] -7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    in a real browser

    Which is a major security risk and you should avoid those "real browsers".

    by displaying Unicode characters an attacker can send you a link that clearly shows its yahoo.com and you see in the browser url that its yahoo.com but in reality its unicode letters that look similar to latin one.

    that's really bad

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not aware of a modern browser that doesn't render it by default. I meant a real browser as in a browser not a lemmy client

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