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jcrash on July 9, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: PSA: Safari URL Correction Being Exploited by Scam...

Thanks for posting this.

>It seems like Safari always puts `.com` when URL does not have a TLD

This doesn't even seem that helpful of a redirect! Plenty of sites don't use .com. Might be better to turn off this functionality completely.

teroshan on July 9, 2024 [–]

It's probably related to the default browser shortcut which loads `foo.com` when entering `foo` in the address bar, and pressing `Ctrl-Enter`

sn_master on July 9, 2024 | [–]

That behavior goes all the way back to the mid 90s in IE4 at least when everything was .com

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