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Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads
  • Just double checked and this also happens in Firefox. I think the other user in this thread has explained it well, looks like a JavaScript intercept onClick to prevent the link action and instead call a JavaScript function to open a different link.

    In this case it is built into the site so I guess it is OK on the basis that I am trusting LinkedIn to not do anything malicious but it was more the principle as I had previously looked at the status bar to confirm the link was what I was expecting but in the future I will be more wary. Interestingly, right clicking and selecting "copy link" does actually copy the page which is loaded as opposed to the one on the status bar.

    If you have linkedin it seems to be links in direct messages if you would like to see yourself.

  • Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads
  • Yes, that looks exactly like what is happening. For clarity though it is a LinkedIn script not one uploaded by a 3rd party.

    It seems to apply to links sent in direct messages which are routed through a linkedin internal page, I assume so they can track you out etc.

    It was more the principal of it though, I hadn't considered that the link shown in the status bar could not be the link you would be taken to if you click it but I guess that's part of allowing javascript to run.

  • Best Image Searching Tools / Sites

    What do you use to find images online these days? Google image search is useless, and I don't think the other major ones are much better.....

    You want large decent quality images you say? Sure, here's some thumbnails, and previews from videos, actually here's some OK looking results but don't click them because the images aren't actually there. No good? What about some Pinterest links or other sites you need to subscribe to or login to, but don't bother doing that because the image probably won't be there when you do...

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    Hey Everyone,

    I have created this community as a place to share data center related news, and have data center related discussions.

    Hopefully we can create a good space here. Feel free to share on here and to make any suggestions. Maybe with time we'll need to add some more rules but for now as long as it's data center related, and not offensive or NSFW then we're good to go.

    Hopefully this will not be the only post to this community!

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    Autocad alternatives
  • I have tried to use the open source CAD programs, but they never worked that well for me.

    SketchUp is good, for what it is, but again it's never been for me.

    If you want 2D like AutoCAD then I have found SolidEdge from Siemens to be good. There is a free version, and I think a paid one too. I only used the 2D version but a quick search just now seems to show a community edition of the 3D too.

  • What's a button you hate tapping or clicking accidentally?
  • I cant remember if it's Facebook messenger or WhatsApp as I don't use either that often, but one of them has a button on the keyboard to send like animated images or something and it's so easy to hit that button and then select an image but the problem is that it doesn't add it to a message which you then have to send, it just sends it straight away. I've sent some really inappropriate things to people I hardly know as a result, and I don't feel like the attempt at an explanation helps.

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  • Schools have a duty of care to their students and there are plenty valid reasons to not want your face on the internet. E.g children who have been adopted from abusive families, threats made to children or their parents etc.

    You can be polite about it and not confrontational. Just tell them that you're unable to provide further information on it at the moment, but that you need them to take any photographs of you off the internet and refrain from posting anything in the future.

    Let them fill in the blanks with whatever story they want.

  • Google Podcasts shutting down in 2024 for YouTube Music
  • How hard is it to keep one brand associated with the one thing they do well? I'd understand it if you only have one brand your trying to expand, like Spotify starting to add video content. But when Google own a wide range of apps each with their own brand and identity, they really don't need to get everyone in one place like YouTube.

    YouTube for me will always be about short video. When they stopped letting my buy movies on Google play, I didn't start using YouTube and just use Amazon now. When they stopped music, I didn't start to use YouTube music and stuck with Spotify. And now they are stopping Podcasts, I won't move to YouTube. I'm not that bothered but I don't see why they keep doing it, they must hemorrhage users every time and surely the value of YouTube with all these extra features etc is still less than the potential sum of the original parts.

  • One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post.
  • Sorry your post has been removed for not being general enough for "General Discussion".

    Also you have been banned from "General Discussion" for posting in other "Specific Discussion" channels which is against our policy.

  • Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks?
  • Can I add a follow up question: Why don't normal batteries have any useful measurements on them, at least in the UK anyway, not sure about elsewhere. Rechargeable batteries will have an Ah rating but normal AA or AAA etc will just say "Ultimate" or "Advance" etc, like why can't we just have an Ah or Wh or even just a standardised rating based on a fixed current discharge or something? It's infuriating that in 2023 I'm buying something with know way of quantifying its content other than the inference of the product name.