Wasn't there an issue like this years ago in something called Google Web Accelerator (I think it was a toolbar for IE). Theory: it preloads links in the backgr

Wasn't there an issue like this years ago in something called Google Web Accelerator (I think it was a toolbar for IE). Theory: it preloads links in the background. Practice: some old bb showed a (delete) link after each post and a (ban) link, among others, next to each user if you were logged in as administrator. All of these sent GET requests because some developer hadn't read that part of the standards, and there was no "are you sure?" prompt either. What I think is happening here is that gmail is scanning the content of each link in an e-mail for some subset of {malware, fraud, phishing, child abuse, other bad stuff}. This is a feature if you're a non-techy user who clicks on phishing links, I suppose?