I want to add one more thing here that I feel most comments are missing: typo squatting. For example, the Microsoft IDE for dotnet is Visual Studio. You can ge

I want to add one more thing here that I feel most comments are missing: typo squatting. For example, the Microsoft IDE for dotnet is Visual Studio. You can get it by googling visual studio or you can go to visualstudio.com which redirects to visualstudio.microsoft.com Now the typo squatted visual stuio dot com is interesting to me. It shows me a different scam depending on where I come from. Sometimes it is just a page full of ads. Sometimes, it is one of those “your registry has corrupted” kind of full screen scams, and sometimes it is just straight up pron. I’m saying all of this to dissuade you from visiting the website if you are on a potentially vulnerable machine. The point is, someone could typosquat the New York Times or the Washington Post, or something like that and generate very confident sounding fake news now, right? Maybe that’s what the tech giants want? They don’t want us typing the url but rather throw our hands up and say “{search engine} take the wheel”, and just type visual studio or nytimes and click the top result?