the ability to edit titles is great. But the ability to edit the URL of a post is dangerous. - Lemmy.ml

3 years ago by DrYes to c/sysadmin

1. I create a well crafted post to a normal site that gets 10.000 upvotes. 2. I change the URL to a malicious site. 3. ??? 4. Profit

I don't know how to crosspost properly.

I think this is a serious design flaw. If you agree please upvote the post on lemmy.ml community for visibility

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trent 14 points 3 years ago

On Kbin's end the thread ID is 57540 and the appended text is simply a hint to what is on the other side of the link (i.e. it doesn't change anything). This is standard practice and you see it a lot across the web
Try this: https://kbin.social/...

path: 0 359398, hotness: undefined, score: 14, children: 2
18107 17 points 3 years ago path: 0 359398 365034, hotness: undefined, score: 17, children: 1
lich_hegemon 1 point 3 years ago

Makes sense. SE is profit driven. They want to be at the top of the list when people Google stuff.

For a service like this tho, is that really that big of an issue?

path: 0 359398 365034 381122, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
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