I didn’t know about that, thanks for sharing.
It’s punycode, it displays as japanese characters in a real browser.
capt_kafei@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
in a real browser
Which is a major security risk and you should avoid those “real browsers”.
by displaying Unicode characters an attacker can send you a link that clearly shows its yahoo.com and you see in the browser url that its yahoo.com but in reality its unicode letters that look similar to latin one.
that’s really bad
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not aware of a modern browser that doesn’t render it by default. I meant a real browser as in a browser not a lemmy client
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
you are right.
You could disable it though in firefox: “about:config” and find “network.IDN_show_punycode” and set to true.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Not everyone uses English. Many languages can’t be written with only ASCII characters.
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I get why it was introduced. I am telling you why its dangrous
nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
For those curious, the characters are katakana (the syllabary often used in Japan for foreign words, onomatopoeia, etc) and the characters read “ma-ri-u-su”, which is possibly intended to represent “Marius” under Japanese spelling conventions.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Thx TIL