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jeroenhdtoday at 8:36 AM1 replyview on HN

Right! Let me check the URL before clicking the "confirm your account" link!

https://rt434.mjt.lu/lnk/GN2PVLyAIiUHuMqkGcjHkjkcRBtF/zJfB7p...

Oh wait, never mind. I guess I won't be signing up for electricity, then?

Also, the vast majority of people don't know that google.com and loginto-google.com aren't the same website, or that google.com.securesigning.net isn't real Google.

If your device gets busted by opening a URL, without any further confirmation or user interaction, your browser/camera app/third party app is broken.


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alfanicktoday at 2:31 PM

> Oh wait, never mind. I guess I won't be signing up for electricity, then?

You ~~will~~ should be picking up your phone and calling the electrical company to confirm and to tell them their links are nonsense. Couldn't bother with AI agent on phone, or 60 min waiting queue to a human? Fuck it, don't pay the bill, figure it out later.

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