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From a security perspective, this is a good idea. People intuitively trust Google links. URL shorteners hide what you're clicking on. Sometimes even informed pe
by robcohen 2y ago
From a security perspective, this is a good idea. People intuitively trust Google links. URL shorteners hide what you're clicking on. Sometimes even informed people click on links.
- o11c 2y agoI remember a war between Users and IT - the shitty CMS everybody used had a crazy-small limit for links, so people wanted to use URL shorteners, which then got blocked for security reasons ...
- TRiG_Ireland 2y agoDo non-technical people think of `goo.gl` as Google?
- unsupp0rted 2y agoYes. And non-technical people don’t know that goo.gl is a URL. Only that it looks like the word Google and Google is official, so this is fine.
- Dylan16807 2y agoWell if it's someone that would be fooled by google-site.com then you don't really help them by shutting down goo.gl in particular.
- cuteboy19 2y agoin a sense having goo.gl be legitimate only serves to legitimize google-site.com additionally we should tar and feather whoever came up with akams
- aitchnyu 2y agoAlso that youtu.be is Youtube.
- aitchnyu 2y agoI have seen linked.in shared as if its job posts shared on LinkedIn, then they redirect to some other url. A job seeker usually has to visit another url to apply to a job posted in LinkedIn, so its not completely suspicious.