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RE: Introducing @guard -- a Proactive Measure to Limit Phishing on Steemit

in #steemcleaners6 years ago

This includes links you think may not be clickable (such as removing the www, or http://), as some browsers / extensions can make them clickable anyway.

o/. What extensions are that? ... why is guard triggering when you use scamsite.domain without any protocol mentioned? ( http, www, etc )

i understand this initiative

but i want to request those 2 flags i got here to be removed, i was making a decent comment me thinks, and now is hidden. and i appear as a shady person to that new steemian and all the ones that read that post #introduceyourself

https://steemit.com/@zee007/helo-my-name-is-zeenia-mir-and-i-am-new-to-steemit-community-3eca6a5c631d8

i do not think i deserve this bad rep...
my comment was not shady or something... i think i was giving good advice @guard and @mack-bot think the opposite, please review it

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RTFA.
Even if you "think" removing the www or http doesn't make it clickable, there are plenty of ways to get around that. There is no way to determine if the link is phishing or not just because you "think" it doesn't link.

<a href="google.com">google</a> or [google](google.com)
appears as:
google

Solution is simple. Don't use a real link.

you leave me this reply @anyx

Hey, please avoid using real links when referring to or warning of scam sites! See point #1 in my post here for why.

I was not providing real links, i do not provide real links in my posts, comments.. precisely to remember people about phishing . Used scamsite.domain without any http or www.. and i was being very clear that was a site i almost got scam into.

also was not just site.domain. it was "site.domain" to add more to the context it was a scam site.