Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs?
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months agoI think the complaint is it’s just needlessly confusing and ambiguous.
Like everyone would obviously have an issue with it if they introduced a TLD of .txt or .jpg so why is this acceptable?
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It really doesn’t matter in my opinion.
If you get an email and there is a link that just says “myfile.zip”, you wouldn’t click it, right? Email doesn’t support links for attachments, so it would be a web link either way. And behind that link it can be whatever, like “malicioussite.com/download/virus”. Actual email attachments have their own spot in your email client.
On top of that, any URL can download a file. If you go to fakegoogle.com it doesn’t even have to be .zip or .jpg, the moment you get there I could start a download in your browser.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
No it’s not that URL will download a file it’s that a URL can pretend to be a final download.
Then all I need to do is build a website that looks like a word or something, and ask users to fill out their personal address form or something.
It’s about the lowest common denominator, and the public are the very most common denominator. Why make life easier for scammers?
It’s not like there’s a legitimate reason for a .zip domain
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Every URL can pretend to be a file download…
I can give you mydomain.com/photo.jpg and then deliver you a webpage instead of a .jpg file. The web server decides what you get in return.