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While I agree that that something needs to be done about spam attacks and hackers, I find the new external link page a bit annoying whilst browsing the forums and peoples' journals, where you know there will be external links anyway. 
My proposal is to add a message like the one shown above whenever you hover over an external link on the forums, in custom userpage modules or in peoples' journals. The current page system would stay in place for all comments on the site (other than the forums).
Let me know what you think - would you prefer this and do you think it would be as effective as the current system?
If you really don't like the warning page and have Firefox and Greasemonkey installed, try this addon -> [link]
p.s. The emote is also available seperately, at [link]
©2009 =davecheesefish
Not to be reproduced or altered without permission - want to use it? click here for details!
My proposal is to add a message like the one shown above whenever you hover over an external link on the forums, in custom userpage modules or in peoples' journals. The current page system would stay in place for all comments on the site (other than the forums).
Let me know what you think - would you prefer this and do you think it would be as effective as the current system?If you really don't like the warning page and have Firefox and Greasemonkey installed, try this addon -> [link]
p.s. The emote is also available seperately, at [link]
©2009 =davecheesefish
Not to be reproduced or altered without permission - want to use it? click here for details!
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I have a better idea: I think the external link page should only be shown for maybe the first five links that a member clicks. After that, they should just see one more page saying, "Look at the status bar, jackass!", and from there they should be allowed to disable the whole thing.
Plus, the whole external page warning link fails to account for situations where non-Latin characters are used to fake URLs. For example, these "a"s are not the same: a а
That second "a" is actually Cyrillic or something, and I could use that to create a fake website called "deviаntart.com". A web browser's status bar would reveal the trick by translating the URL into something called "punycode" (resulting in an ugly glob of symbols that clearly isn't the real "deviantart.com"), but the warning page would likely just display it as "deviаntart.com", with the fake "а" being indistinguishable from a real "a".
Seriously. Windows users, just find the "Character Map" buried somewhere in "Start > Programs > Accessories", a bunch of "fake" letters are in there.
Plus, the whole external page warning link fails to account for situations where non-Latin characters are used to fake URLs. For example, these "a"s are not the same: a а
That second "a" is actually Cyrillic or something, and I could use that to create a fake website called "deviаntart.com". A web browser's status bar would reveal the trick by translating the URL into something called "punycode" (resulting in an ugly glob of symbols that clearly isn't the real "deviantart.com"), but the warning page would likely just display it as "deviаntart.com", with the fake "а" being indistinguishable from a real "a".
Seriously. Windows users, just find the "Character Map" buried somewhere in "Start > Programs > Accessories", a bunch of "fake" letters are in there.