• ares35
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    211 year ago

    disable unicode representation of these types of domains in firefox by flipping this setting (in about:config) from the default ‘false’ to TRUE:

    network.IDN_show_punycode

    so you see аррӏе.com instead of аррӏе.com

    compare to (the real deal): apple.com

    • @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Looks like it’s already flipped to true in Librewolf, glad they seem to have some common sense compared to mozilla.

      Is there any good reason for a browser to mask the real URLs like that? There seems to be a trend of hiding parts of the URL people see lately.

      • Turun
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        191 year ago

        Yes, because the internet is not restricted to English letters.

        Just imagine you had to visit アップル instead of apple.com! And most importantly, would you trust yourself to see the difference that and say プッアル consistently without seeing the real reference?

        Just to be clear, I hate it when the browsers hides part of the url too. Show me the https god damn! But internationalization is a good thing, as it makes the internet accessible to more people.

      • @Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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        161 year ago

        People who use those characters benefit from it. I imagine 點看 is more useful than xn–c1yn36f to a Chinese person. That’s also why Google displays them that way.

        It would be nice if browsers warned when International Domain Names were in use, and provided the option to disable punycode when first encountered.

    • @Onyx376@lemmy.ml
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      41 year ago

      Does anyone using Mullvad Browser know why this setting is not enabled by default? I just checked. If it is important for security it should be.