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Re: Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one

#101

Post by sleepychu » Mon, Jun 26, 2017, 7:44 AM UTC

bryant wrote: post #88

sleepychu wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You already have that same deal with bit.ly and friends. http://bit.ly/2saifoB http://bit.ly/2t5xNhB Which is safe and wonderful and which is dangerous?

For the uninitiated: just add a + to the end of any bitly URL to expose metrics and preview the destination. http://bit.ly/2saifoB+ http://bit.ly/2t5xNhB+

This is neat, I hadn't seen it before.

Re: Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one

#102

Post by dabber » Mon, Jun 26, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

PetahNZ wrote: post #63

mikkohypponen wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

*Considering most people in the world use Android.

Well, most people use both.

That can't be true can it?

Re: Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one

#103

Post by rkuykendall-com » Mon, Jun 26, 2017, 10:46 PM UTC

I built this years ago when I made it up during an IM conversation with a friend and we realized it wasn't taken: http://shadydownloads.com/

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