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by aavshr 803 days ago
The link I just clicked on to reply to your comment was `https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39991931&goto=item%3Fi...` but thankfully it just said 'reply' in the UI.
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Karellen 802 days ago
I wonder if there's a browser extension that checks if the link text is a valid URL, but is a different URL (or just on a different domain?) than the actual link target, and adds some kind of warning for the user if so?

I'm not sure what keywords I'd use to find an extension like that.

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kibwen 802 days ago
This would break every website that wants to track what links you click on by sneakily rewriting the link under your nose. Which, to be fair, is a use case that I'm all for breaking, but it would make Google mad, so it won't happen.
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Karellen 802 days ago
> This would break every website that wants to track what links you click on

So, a plan with no drawbacks?

> it would make Google mad, so it won't happen.

Google doesn't control which browser extensions get written?

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