Yeah but that URL thing is entirely FB's own choice and own problem. Definitely way more a thing of "violates our policy standards" than "oftentimes it is distu

Yeah but that URL thing is entirely FB's own choice and own problem. Definitely way more a thing of "violates our policy standards" than "oftentimes it is disturbing" because people going around tricking others to click on shock videos using advanced cloaking techniques ... just isn't that big of a problem. Linking to things is a normal thing to do on the Internet, but Facebook wants to control that, because links often also mean the user moves their attention away from FB, onto the linked thing. This is what FB doesn't want. But it is a very useful thing for the user, to be able to smoothly navigate between apps and websites depending on their needs. I do wonder why they chose to go with the danger of URL masking that links can be "disturbing" instead of "scams". Because I don't believe these techniques are (widely) being used to trick people into watching animal torture or other disturbing things. They'll be tricked to click on scams and phishing sites. The difference between "disturbing" and "scam" is literally the difference between subjectively not-okay and objectively not-okay. Facebook just wants the power to prohibit you from accessing what it deems "disturbing". Also just from a technical perspective, there's some very weird assumptions: FB's server would see something different than the user's browser. But FB's local AI spy process would see the same thing? Are they seriously pretending that you shouldn't be able to securely log onto another website in a browser? Yes the user's browser sees something different, because it is logged in, and no FB's local AI spy process is not invited ... At most they could warn that the site looks different than what the server side FB scanner saw. Then the user could decide if they feel more secure because this is expected as they are logged in and FB can't watch along, or if this is unexpected and they should be cautious.