Timeline for Why is "hovering over" a link in an email considered safe? Or is it harmful?
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| Mar 7, 2017 at 22:36 | comment | added | Kat | @muru, pre-fetching sometimes happens in various ways, but I can't imagine a browser would just visit any link (including ones that users hover over). That'd be a bad idea, since many links might have side effects (for a non virus example, imagine hovering over a delete link!). Pre-fetching would have to be more intelligent, wouldn't it? ie, service specific. You can prefetch the first google result because many people click it. Or the next image in a known image host. Etc. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 18:37 | comment | added | leekaiinthesky | Don't overlook one obvious, significant risk... If you encourage a large group of people to hover, there's a high probability that some people will accidentally click. | |
| Mar 5, 2017 at 10:33 | comment | added | muru | Don't some browsers do pre-fetching of links the user might visit? Could that be harmful? | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 20:46 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/837766170358865920 | ||
| S Mar 3, 2017 at 18:34 | history | edited | Vilican | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Mar 3, 2017 at 18:34 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2017 at 15:20 | history | edited | Anders | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2017 at 14:59 | history | asked | JOW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |