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Would you pick up on this if you were in a hurry and happen to be expecting a package? (imagine it's in English ๐Ÿ˜…) What immediately catches your eye?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I am a cynic, so yes, I even manually read urls before clicking but it seems I am the weird one.

[โ€“] klyde 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I click all URLs for fun. They usually take you to those shitty survey sites. Then I just exit them. The fake links can't do anything unless you let them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Browsers do have exploits from time to time. Clicking suspicious URLs can be dangerous.

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