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by gbear605 2263 days ago
One concern is that you can’t always trust the Wikipedia link. For example, in this edit [1] to the Equifax page, a spammer changed the link to a spam site. They’re usually fixed quickly, but it’s not guaranteed. So it’s a really neat project, but be careful about actually using it, especially for sensitive websites.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equifax&diff=9455...

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True, seems pretty risky. Maybe the extension could take advantage of the edit history and warn the user about recent changes?

Edit: Unrelated to this issue, but I have a more general idea for the kinds of inputs this extension may accept. It could be an omnibox command [0] that takes the input text, passes it through some search engine with "site:wikipedia.org", visits the first result and finally grabs the URL. So you don't have to know any part of the URL - you can just type the name of the thing.

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/omnibox

The user should exercise caution, but in the use cases provided (a new scihub/tpb domain) that applies regardless.