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WUED , to technology in Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads

Just double checked and this also happens in Firefox. I think the other user in this thread has explained it well, looks like a JavaScript intercept onClick to prevent the link action and instead call a JavaScript function to open a different link.

In this case it is built into the site so I guess it is OK on the basis that I am trusting LinkedIn to not do anything malicious but it was more the principle as I had previously looked at the status bar to confirm the link was what I was expecting but in the future I will be more wary. Interestingly, right clicking and selecting “copy link” does actually copy the page which is loaded as opposed to the one on the status bar.

If you have linkedin it seems to be links in direct messages if you would like to see yourself.

WUED , to technology in Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads

Yes, that looks exactly like what is happening. For clarity though it is a LinkedIn script not one uploaded by a 3rd party.

It seems to apply to links sent in direct messages which are routed through a linkedin internal page, I assume so they can track you out etc.

It was more the principal of it though, I hadn’t considered that the link shown in the status bar could not be the link you would be taken to if you click it but I guess that’s part of allowing javascript to run.

WUED , to technology in Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads

Sorry, I don’t mean the link text itself, but the destination shown in the status bar in the bottom left of my desktop browser.

WUED , to technology in Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads

Sorry for the slow reply, but it was a link on LinkedIn and I’m using chrome. It’s frustrating as I use the status bar to check the link is the same as the text before clicking it.

WUED , to casualuk in Driver caught drinking mug of tea on motorway - BBC News

As far as I can see it’s somewhat open to interpretation as to if you were “distracted” or “not in control of your vehicle”

rac.co.uk/…/driving-myths-your-questions-answered…

WUED , to asklemmy in Autocad alternatives

I have tried to use the open source CAD programs, but they never worked that well for me.

SketchUp is good, for what it is, but again it’s never been for me.

If you want 2D like AutoCAD then I have found SolidEdge from Siemens to be good. There is a free version, and I think a paid one too. I only used the 2D version but a quick search just now seems to show a community edition of the 3D too.

WUED , to android in Google Podcasts shutting down in 2024 for YouTube Music

How hard is it to keep one brand associated with the one thing they do well? I’d understand it if you only have one brand your trying to expand, like Spotify starting to add video content. But when Google own a wide range of apps each with their own brand and identity, they really don’t need to get everyone in one place like YouTube.

YouTube for me will always be about short video. When they stopped letting my buy movies on Google play, I didn’t start using YouTube and just use Amazon now. When they stopped music, I didn’t start to use YouTube music and stuck with Spotify. And now they are stopping Podcasts, I won’t move to YouTube. I’m not that bothered but I don’t see why they keep doing it, they must hemorrhage users every time and surely the value of YouTube with all these extra features etc is still less than the potential sum of the original parts.

WUED , to technology in Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform

Glad I’m reading this on Lemmy. Well, “glad” isn’t the right word, but you know…

WUED , to nostupidquestions in Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks?

Can I add a follow up question: Why don’t normal batteries have any useful measurements on them, at least in the UK anyway, not sure about elsewhere. Rechargeable batteries will have an Ah rating but normal AA or AAA etc will just say “Ultimate” or “Advance” etc, like why can’t we just have an Ah or Wh or even just a standardised rating based on a fixed current discharge or something? It’s infuriating that in 2023 I’m buying something with know way of quantifying its content other than the inference of the product name.

WUED , to technology in Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads

I always check the status bar but I actually noticed the other day on LinkedIn or maybe Facebook, that the status bar said one thing, but the link was different,

E.g the hover over said website.com but the actual link was something like linkedin.com/linkout/wbdjdhgaj?user=xhedb

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