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This would generate a ton of "false positives" (go look at a link in a random email newsletter and see what the actual URL is). People who do a lot of email stu
by eli 5y ago
This would generate a ton of "false positives" (go look at a link in a random email newsletter and see what the actual URL is). People who do a lot of email stuff on their phone would be trained to click Yes a hundred times a day.
Meanwhile it seems very unlikely to stop such a determined attacker. They just need to compromise a site that you might plausibly want to visit, or create a convincing enough lookalike. The URL need not look suspicious.
IMHO expecting users to be able to discern "safe" from "unsafe" links by just looking at them represents a failure of our infosec systems.