↳ In-reply-to » 2022 is about to end, and there are still official services that send SMS texts to people telling them to follow links to https://bit.ly/somewhere . Educating people against phishing gets hard, when services' customers are educated like this...

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci QR codes and link shorteners can be useful, but people have been trained to click and scan things without doing their due diligence. Of course, mobile operating systems make it very difficult to do so because their goal is to remove as much control as is acceptable by the user.

As far as I know, you have to load the page in a browser before you can see the entire URL, giving it the opportunity to redirect somewhere else or exploit some vulnerability on your device.

I think we agree here. When the user has no control and is taught to blindly trust these things, bad things happen.