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Hasn't this been the expected behavior since the dawn of the web 2.0? Next he is going to complain that websites can have a hyperlink that says example.com but
by osamagirl69 7y ago
Hasn't this been the expected behavior since the dawn of the web 2.0? Next he is going to complain that websites can have a hyperlink that says example.com but points to badexample.com! And worse yet, they can use js to hide their tracks! (ie, google search click redirects)
- rkangel 7y agoI think that protecting against this sort of thing would be helpful: identify hyperlink text that looks like a URL and compare it with the actual link. If they differ, pop up a warning.
- pavel_lishin 7y ago> Hasn't this been the expected behavior since the dawn of the web 2.0? Expected for cheese-brained marketers who love to slap garbage into my selections. Certainly not expected when I'm trying to discuss an article in slack and comment on excerpts.
- matheusmoreira 7y agoNo, this is not the expected behavior. When people copy a selection, they intend to paste it somewhere else. They expect to paste exactly what they copied, no more and no less. Whether they trust a website or not should not even be a factor. People should complain about it. People should complain about clipboard hijacking, hyperlink hijacking and all the other unacceptable breaches of trust that web masters perpetrate. Web developers were given powerful tools and instead of using them responsibly they chose to abuse them. So they shouldn't have access to them anymore. These issues need to be fixed client side just like ads were. We need to remind these people who owns the machine.