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[–] 141 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 54 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Cm0002:

    waltzes into chat about deceptive links

    clicks a deceptive link

    realizes they have been deceived

    Cm0002: "No, it is the person who posted the deceptive link who is wrong".

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Jokes on you I saw the ad first.

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    [–] 97 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Looks like it got too creepy for its own good.

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago*

    Link shorteners and redirectors, especially new and lesser-known ones tend to get caught in the fray with things like Google Safe Browsing (which FF uses as well) and Smart Screen.

    It's because the original/shortened link gets reported and not the real/destination site. Then the domain (of the shortener/redirector) gets flagged, instead of the real site.

    This happened to me at work this very week, with a redirector service that's a part of our email security stack. FF and Chrome were both blocking links that were safe, because the redirector service itself was classified as sus.

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    [–] 76 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Based on these ads, I do not trust the site anyway.

    Sketchy dark pattern ads

    Love the concept, though.

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  • [–] 84 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Ad for an ad-blocker. Genius 🤣

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    [–] 54 points 6 months ago

    alive internet theory

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    [–] 40 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Pfft, I got one with TODO_Obfuscate_URL. I wish I saved it.

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I totally believe this works, but there's no way I'm clicking on any of those links

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    [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    it would be quite something, if the links actually went to/through malicious sites...

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    This is so funny and useless, I love it

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    [–] 8 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    What even is the point of URL shorteners? I always understood it as a Twitter thing, but I see them more outside of Twitter.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    When sharing links with people in places where there’s a character limit or to avoid polluting visuals.

    Also, when sharing like orally or showing it to someone else when you have no other way to communicate it: ex, the link of a shared cloud file

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Infuriatingly, URL shortners are often used in QR codes because they have a character limit-ish (longer strings make for more detailed QR codes, which are harder to scan from further away so it's a trade-off). but if the QR points to a shortened link then it's more difficult to assess where a QR code is pointing without blindly following the link.

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

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    https://secure.ic6do.com/tRn4TI_ip_grab

    EDIT: Please do click the link so my joke can land

    EDIT 2: Sorry I'm too much of a wimp to even happy-prank people

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