The worry is that emails and social media posts that refer to a file such as setup.zip or vacation.mov will automatically turn them into clickable links -- and that scammers will seize on the ambiguity
This doesn't make sense. setup.zip or vacation.mov would already be clickable links to the files. The TLDs would have no effect on that. What am I missing here?
If they were in a browser, the browser would want to open setup.zip as https://setup.zip/ instead of \setup.zip
The wording the article used is weird, it should have said "open as a website instead of a file."
IMO you would have to be full retard to fall for something like that. I don't know about you guys but I don't click links to files unless the browser shows the full link when I hover over it.
Most users are in fact retards.
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