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Looks like it’s already flipped to true in Librewolf, glad they seem to have some common sense compared to mozilla.
Is there any good reason for a browser to mask the real URLs like that? There seems to be a trend of hiding parts of the URL people see lately.
Yes, because the internet is not restricted to English letters.
Just imagine you had to visit アップル instead of apple.com! And most importantly, would you trust yourself to see the difference that and say プッアル consistently without seeing the real reference?
Just to be clear, I hate it when the browsers hides part of the url too. Show me the https god damn! But internationalization is a good thing, as it makes the internet accessible to more people.
Stop it! The only words that matter are those that can be written in ASCII! The rest of the world just wants to scare you with gibberish letters!
People who use those characters benefit from it. I imagine 點看 is more useful than xn–c1yn36f to a Chinese person. That’s also why Google displays them that way.
It would be nice if browsers warned when International Domain Names were in use, and provided the option to disable punycode when first encountered.
This is the big thing that should be happening, even just a little icon in the bar when it’s happening to switch between the two representations.
To have other languages able to be displayed in the title… e.g. https://wiki.ポケモン.com/wiki/メインページ
You may have gotten me to switch browsers
Any way to fix this on mobile? about:config isn’t a thing.
In Firefox Nightly you can iirc
Does anyone using Mullvad Browser know why this setting is not enabled by default? I just checked. If it is important for security it should be.
Oh so that’s what punycode means, I always wondered what it meant
Wouldn’t you also be able to hover the link and check the URL in the bottom left?
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Tl;dr google is a cancer
They have failed one of their code jobs: validating advertisements are legitimate. I don’t know why any legitimate company would advertise with google as you get associated with the scams they allow on their ad platform.
Ads are cancer. Google by being a company that makes most of its money from ads is cancer by extension.
It rapidly grew and became bad so yes.
Another reason to stick to your distro repositories. This should totally be disabled by default for modern browsers.
The program doesn’t even need to change much. Just be keepass with a backdoor. Yikes.
Say it louder for the people at the back: adblock is a basic cybersecurity measurs
That’s kinda crazy, as it would look like a speck on the screen. I wish I could see the actual site, and see if there is something else sus about it. When I download important things like password managers, I usually try to be extra careful, double check the URL and do the hash check.
