Google Search Makes It Harder to See Where a Link Really Goes Before You Click

Google has begun routing some organic Search result links through opaque google.com/goto?url=… redirects, reducing users’ ability to independently inspect a destination URL before clicking. The change appears designed to raise the technical and financial cost of mass scraping. However, it also weakens a long-standing, basic anti-phishing habit: hovering over a link to verify where it […]

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