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Because scammers are exploiting the way we use URLs for the detriment of users. URLs are great as a mnemonic point of entry but you can easily scam someone out
by muthdra 8y ago
Because scammers are exploiting the way we use URLs for the detriment of users. URLs are great as a mnemonic point of entry but you can easily scam someone out of a trusted website into your cloned version of it without them even noticing; it's a very slow and very dumb attack where the shady URL itself is the corrupt man-in-the-middle.
- arkades 8y agoI understand the purported rationale for killing URLs. My comment was clarifying where the google spokesperson made a statement I interpret as “we are going to kill URLs.”