No, it was mostly so cautious it only worked under very strict conditions (ie https and www had to be present or only certain domains) to the point of being use

No, it was mostly so cautious it only worked under very strict conditions (ie https and www had to be present or only certain domains) to the point of being useless. Others got quite a lot wrong such as reddit regularly cutting off valid links that left you having to manually copy the entire link anyways. The same exact security issues that are present here with .zip are also possible with unintended links.