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		almostnormal on June 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud – take 2 While advertizers are abusing some mechanism, isn't the underlying issue that browsers allow that to happen? When following a link that did claim to go somwhere, but then does not, add a warning page? Then feed those cases to some cetral database to blame the worst offenders for bad publicity. Getting the big ad networks to behave won't solve the problem only reduce it. Only local mechanisms can avoid it.

bouzouk on June 11, 2024 [–]

Here we are not talking about a « real hyperlink ». Ads are just showing the vanity URL, very much like they could show some text or image. Browser cannot protect users if they click on something that resembles a link without being one.

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