By being able to link urls in your text like this, people can easily hide links to malware and malicious websites. We should just paste the url into our posts or comments as is
By being able to link urls in your text like this, people can easily hide links to malware and malicious websites. We should just paste the url into our posts or comments as is
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I chose not to click your link.
Problem solved without making new rules.
Just hover over it and it shows you the URL. Easy peasy
Do you just randomly click every word?
It’s a rickroll. Your post’s thumbnail gives it away
Okay, what did you click and how much did Geek Squad make off of you?
You don’t have to click the link
You know you can see where the link goes before you click it, right?
There was actually a study done on this recently out of Switzerland.
You can see the full adress when you hover it with your mouse in your browser on mobile you can hold.
As long as you don’t download or install anything with your admin password, no link will harm you.
It also more user-friendly to place links in text. The table of content in PDFs is also linked, but you will never doubt that it will take you to a virus instead of the page. So would you also avoid digital books?