{"id":29316,"date":"2024-11-05T07:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=29316"},"modified":"2024-11-05T07:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T12:20:23","slug":"hover-over-links-and-think-before-you-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/hover-over-links-and-think-before-you-click\/","title":{"rendered":"Hover Over Links &#8211; and Think &#8211; Before You Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Hover Over Links &#8211; and Think &#8211; Before You Click<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">One trick scammers and other miscreants use is to disguise links with text or a link that looks safe but isn&#8217;t. We have said many times &#8220;Think before you click.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> One of the things to consider is counterfeit links. Those are links that look safe or text that disguises the destination of the links. By hovering over a link, you can see the real deal &#8211; the real link &#8211; uncloaked and not disguised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But it has come to our attention that some folks don&#8217;t see the &#8220;real&#8221; destination of the URL when they hover over links. It seems so simple, we just forgot to tell people where to look to see the real URL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/hover.gif\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows Tips\" width=\"346\" height=\"277\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We made the animation above so that everyone can see how hovering over a link reveals the real URL. Watch as the mouse pointer hovers over the link and how the actual URL is displayed at the bottom left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">This is a fundamental tip that will help you stay safe on the Web. And remember&#8230; hover over links to see the real destination of the link&#8230;and always&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hover Over Links &#8211; and Think &#8211; Before You Click One trick scammers and other miscreants use is to disguise links with text or a link that looks safe but isn&#8217;t. We have said many times &#8220;Think before you click.&#8221;\u00a0 One of the things to consider is counterfeit links. Those are links that look safe or text\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/hover-over-links-and-think-before-you-click\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1678,1656,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29318,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions\/29318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}