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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

"check the link before you click" and these man in the middle forwarding systems make that impossible.

generally not true… the link href (the thing the browser shows to the user) would be the original link… bsky hijacks the link with an onclick (or similar) handler so you can see where you’ll be taken before clicking