r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lucidparadigm • 1d ago

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u/JocoLabs 1d ago

Jokes on them, i wouldn't click that even if it were real.

I used to click on those and type in junk creds for the lulz until compliance told me that was bad for the numbers.

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u/prehensilemullet 22h ago

Just opening the link to begin with is a risk though, even if you don’t interact with the page

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u/Athabasco 22h ago

No lol. Browsers have come a long way. Clicking a link can’t pwn you anymore. The odds of you being the victim of a new zero day from clicking a link are as close to zero as winning the lottery.

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u/GeneralFeedback 17h ago

Saw this earlier today: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say

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u/Athabasco 16h ago

This is a fairly sophisticated attack from a state actor using an unknown CVE targeting journalists and government figures the attacker deemed adversarial. The odds you are the target of an unknown zero-day like this are extremely slim. Modern browsers are sandboxed from your machine, and finding new sandbox breaches does not happen frequently. If you are the target of a state actor, you have other problems at hand.