Somehow I doubt that this will actually help people spot fakes. I imagine that many of the more successful fake links work through domain hacks, which will pass the "cursory glance test" that the...
Somehow I doubt that this will actually help people spot fakes. I imagine that many of the more successful fake links work through domain hacks, which will pass the "cursory glance test" that the average user will perform (if they do it at all). Personally I suspect the only way to help users to avoid fake links would be to have some way to strongly indicate to a user that a link has a high probability of being a spoofed link (i.e. similar to the insecure page message when loading a page with an incorrect SSL certificate).
The experiment should reveal whether you are right. Hopefully the results will be made public. Google has a database of unsafe sites. I assume this is in addition to that, since not everything is...
The experiment should reveal whether you are right. Hopefully the results will be made public.
Google has a database of unsafe sites. I assume this is in addition to that, since not everything is in the database.
Update: this started happening to me on desktop, shortly after upgrading to Chrome 86, and I had forgotten that this was going to happen. I was briefly confused because, after clicking on links on...
Update: this started happening to me on desktop, shortly after upgrading to Chrome 86, and I had forgotten that this was going to happen. I was briefly confused because, after clicking on links on Hacker News, I didn't understand why unfamiliar websites were showing specific news articles on their front pages. It seemed sketchy, because why would someone buy a domain name to display one article on the front page?
Then I figured it out, was briefly angry about the change to Chrome, and did a search to see how to turn it off. Right-clicking does the trick.
The fact that that it took that long for me to notice that all URL's had changed is somewhat disconcerting.
Somehow I doubt that this will actually help people spot fakes. I imagine that many of the more successful fake links work through domain hacks, which will pass the "cursory glance test" that the average user will perform (if they do it at all). Personally I suspect the only way to help users to avoid fake links would be to have some way to strongly indicate to a user that a link has a high probability of being a spoofed link (i.e. similar to the insecure page message when loading a page with an incorrect SSL certificate).
The experiment should reveal whether you are right. Hopefully the results will be made public.
Google has a database of unsafe sites. I assume this is in addition to that, since not everything is in the database.
Update: this started happening to me on desktop, shortly after upgrading to Chrome 86, and I had forgotten that this was going to happen. I was briefly confused because, after clicking on links on Hacker News, I didn't understand why unfamiliar websites were showing specific news articles on their front pages. It seemed sketchy, because why would someone buy a domain name to display one article on the front page?
Then I figured it out, was briefly angry about the change to Chrome, and did a search to see how to turn it off. Right-clicking does the trick.
The fact that that it took that long for me to notice that all URL's had changed is somewhat disconcerting.
If you're getting deja vu, yes, they have experimented with this before.