I'd like to know where a link leads to before clicking on it; may be a small tooltip, like someone else in this thread suggested. This would avoid things like "Oh I didn't really expect a video here" to "Oops, my coworker would have thought I opened that NSFW website intentionally".
Sure, this is not a complete solution (there are videos in sites other than Youtube, Metacafe, etc., and NSFW content in just too many websites), but would help in very many cases.
Actually I'm surprised not so many people are concerned about the security implications of having opaque URLs (there's been a lot of talk about this recently, but very little action AFAIK).
I've been thinking about this lately and thought a Firefox extension might be of help. I was just planning to shake off my laziness and learn about how to make an extension so I could make this one.
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I'd like to know where a link leads to before clicking on it; may be a small tooltip, like someone else in this thread suggested. This would avoid things like "Oh I didn't really expect a video here" to "Oops, my coworker would have thought I opened that NSFW website intentionally".
Sure, this is not a complete solution (there are videos in sites other than Youtube, Metacafe, etc., and NSFW content in just too many websites), but would help in very many cases.
Actually I'm surprised not so many people are concerned about the security implications of having opaque URLs (there's been a lot of talk about this recently, but very little action AFAIK).
I've been thinking about this lately and thought a Firefox extension might be of help. I was just planning to shake off my laziness and learn about how to make an extension so I could make this one.
A positive response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577896 might make this unnecessary, but then it might not...