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**feqlmwtuqx** · 03-07-2012, 03:04 AM

Yep, people need to learn to hover over a link to see where it goes before clicking on it. Particularly in email, but there are some not so friendly websites out there, too.

There are tricks out there though which hovering over an URL won't reveal.

For at least a year now, I've noticed in gootube video descriptions, where the uploader may have included some URLs- you can hover over the URL, and the browser indicates it's the URL which it appears to be. But alas it's not- you actually have to right-click/copy link location, then paste somewhere to see it- it's a big long gootube tracking URL, which when clicked, goes there for a split second before redirecting to the URL you bargained for. But in the gootube description, they spoof the browser's hover-over function to conceal this fact. I'm sure their nice PR people would tell us, it's because they don't want to confuse surfers by having their big ugly tracking URL appear when they hover-over, how nice of them!

here's one example, recent David Duke vid- go there and expand the description below the vid, notice multiple links to http://www.davidduke.com - you'll notice when you hover over them, they appear same as the URL you see. But , right-click/copy link location and paste somewhere...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheJ2Rohz1c

03-07-2012, 03:04 AM	#7
feqlmwtuqx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	Yep, people need to learn to hover over a link to see where it goes before clicking on it. Particularly in email, but there are some not so friendly websites out there, too. There are tricks out there though which hovering over an URL won't reveal. For at least a year now, I've noticed in gootube video descriptions, where the uploader may have included some URLs- you can hover over the URL, and the browser indicates it's the URL which it appears to be. But alas it's not- you actually have to right-click/copy link location, then paste somewhere to see it- it's a big long gootube tracking URL, which when clicked, goes there for a split second before redirecting to the URL you bargained for. But in the gootube description, they spoof the browser's hover-over function to conceal this fact. I'm sure their nice PR people would tell us, it's because they don't want to confuse surfers by having their big ugly tracking URL appear when they hover-over, how nice of them! here's one example, recent David Duke vid- go there and expand the description below the vid, notice multiple links to http://www.davidduke.com - you'll notice when you hover over them, they appear same as the URL you see. But , right-click/copy link location and paste somewhere... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheJ2Rohz1c
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