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Bootaymole t1_j8oq0cr wrote

Reply to comment by Quick_Abbreviations4 in Is this mail from the REAL Apple? by Quick_Abbreviations4

Never click on the links if you’re suspicious about the email.

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Quick_Abbreviations4 OP t1_j8ot6zx wrote

Thing is, I wasn't suspicious of the email. Since I'm not a native English speaker, the words just went past my brain and I read them the way they were supposed to be written. I was suspicious when I opened the link. While it was loading I glanced over the link and it just didn't seem right so I lfet the site before it even loaded

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expertmysteryshopper t1_j8otkn9 wrote

if you know html coding , that web site has already gather a lot of information about your device . since you click on the link.

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alphinex t1_j8ow3es wrote

Ehem… with HTML only you can’t gather any informations. And with JavaScript, you can’t get that much as well.

I would assume, as long as you are not giving any informations by yourself, you are more or less safe on the web.

The only way to gather more informations not letting the user know about it, is using a vulnerable bug (one of that was getting fixed in iOS 16.3.1), but I don’t know how far you will even get with that.

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Cool-Click1253 t1_j8pdlbr wrote

I’m a web developer and I can confirm this is 100% accurate, just don’t visit suspicious links anyways just so you’re extra safe in case they’re utilizing an unknown vulnerability

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expertmysteryshopper t1_j8pvahp wrote

well there is XML , i used to be a web designer using microsoft front page

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alphinex t1_j8swepz wrote

XML can’t do anything more than HTML. What’s your point? There is literally no logic in HTML or XML.

Please just take the advice by u/Cool-Click1253 and me, seems like we are both web developers, maybe both with some decades of experience (but we can still be wrong). You cant gather sensitive informations (or any other) via XML or HTML (based upon XML btw…). HTML is only a HyperTextMarkupLanguage, no programming language. its only to describe the structure of the page which should get (mostly visible) rendered.

But still, you are right, that you shouldnt click the link in the first place, if it looks suspicious.

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