Like with so much on the web, with great power comes great responsibility. However, that is not super reassuring. Most of the time I have seen sites do this s

Like with so much on the web, with great power comes great responsibility. However, that is not super reassuring. Most of the time I have seen sites do this so that the link is clear and easy to read for the user, while adding utm_campaign codes and other junk that the user does not care about. However I am sure some sites use this behavior to .... trick users. So we need to ask ourselves which is the greater good? There might be a UX solution here, in how those links are shown, and maybe there should be some rules about HTTPS links in pages. Maybe users could set a setting that if the link is changed on click, that maybe, it would not automatically go to the site, but would prompt the user, or at least inform them on the landing page with some form of notification.