• @over_clox
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    -21 year ago

    You do realize another way to write et al is…

    et. al.

    Miss one space, bam, your typo turns into a link these days.

    • Dusty
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      51 year ago

      That’s on you, not the internet or google. As has been pointed out, dot al is a TLD for a country. Just because you can’t type properly and didn’t spell check yourself, doesn’t mean the internet is doomed.

      • @over_clox
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        -41 year ago

        You make typo, send it to friend, friend clicks link…

        Is that origin.al or not?

    • Brokkr
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      31 year ago

      “et” doesn’t need to be abbreviated, it’s a full word. “al.” is short for “alia”.

      You could argue that typos shouldn’t get turned into links, but there’s simply no good way of stopping that from happening.

      • @over_clox
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        01 year ago

        Yes, yes there most certainly is a way to completely prevent that from ever happening.

        Get rid of this whole automatic link detecting shit altogether and require the use of https:// before every single link.

        Believe it or not, that’s how the internet used to work, and we didn’t have stupid shit like attachment.zip