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Chrome on iOS and Android will now detect URL typos - The Verge

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Chrome on iOS and Android will now detect URL typos

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Chrome on iOS and Android will now detect URL typos

www.theverge.com /2023/10/17/23921281/chrome-ios-android-url-typos-accessibility-google-maps

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Why tf would I want a dumb ai to try and second guess my typos?
- You probably don't, but that feature may save some clueless people from getting phished.
  
  I mistyped my bank website at an insurance office and locked down the computer. Lady had to call IT to unlock everything again. 16 year old me learned to carefully check the address bar that day.
- I have a feeling people like us are no longer googles target.
  I'll just stick to my lineage os device with mull browser
  
  Of course not.
  Google, the search engine, changed something in their config. Now Google apparently looks through each keyword, it's definitions, and looks specifically for those definitions. Which means if a word has many different definition, Google will probably only return the most popular one, as in the one making the most sense for most users. They could use their "advanced algorithms" to guess what the user actually means, but if they do, it does not work at all. At this point, even Bing/DuckDuckGo and Kagi are better.

Inb4 2 years from now:
Google "fixes bug" where "Spotify.com" was autocorrected to "music.youtube.com"
Google spokesperson says "oops silly AI bugs, we will make sure it never happens again 🤞🏻"

typosquatters in shambles
- I'm just waiting for the bug that redirects valid websites to the dangerous ones

Let me reframe it as something evil.

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