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Re:Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:02AM (#18217705)
I also didn't know about that, so thanks. But - how on Earth was I to know? How are all my non-tech friends to figure it out?
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Re:Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its... by shoo on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:06AM (#18218555)
> But - how on Earth was I to know?

from a Don Norman design-of-everyday-things perspective the design is completely non-discoverable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance#As_perceived_action...

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Re:Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its... by iuwhagtr on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:12AM (#18218576)
What does that matter? Once they've clicked they'll see the URL in the location bar
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Re:Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its... by astura on Monday October 15, 2018 @08:44AM (#18219204)
It's useful to know the domain of the link before you click because some people might not want to navigate to unknown sites at work, or at least don't want to navigate to certain sites at work (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, pornhub, etc, etc.)
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