I was sent this, and...
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You could’ve FaceTimed an Eel.... - YouTube[^] Uh ... um ... Ok. :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You could’ve FaceTimed an Eel.... - YouTube[^] Uh ... um ... Ok. :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I am not clicking on that. :)
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
I understand that you want to be careful, but if you are that careful all the time, you won't get very much out of Internet :-) I do not click on just any link sent to me by just any unknown person. Links from people I know and trust, I do click (if it appears to be anything interesting to me). I do not know OriginalGriff personally, but I have seen his posts here at CP for years, and there has never been anything suggesting that he is not trustworthy. He is one of the regular posters that I have the most confidence that will not spread any sort of malware. In theory, he could be in good faith, yet there could be something nasty hidden in the image that he didn't know of. That could also happen to some person that I know personally and know that is very malware aware. If you click on any link at all, there is a certain risk that you cannot avoid. I consider OriginalGriff trustworthy. I consider YouTube reasonably trustworthy. With those two taken together, I did trust that the link was safe and clicked on it. Well, I wasn't too fascinated by the video clip, not my kid of stuff. You didn't miss anything essential. But if you need someone more trustworthy that OriginalGriff, and a more reliable link target than YouTube, before you click a link, then you miss out on a lot.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I understand that you want to be careful, but if you are that careful all the time, you won't get very much out of Internet :-) I do not click on just any link sent to me by just any unknown person. Links from people I know and trust, I do click (if it appears to be anything interesting to me). I do not know OriginalGriff personally, but I have seen his posts here at CP for years, and there has never been anything suggesting that he is not trustworthy. He is one of the regular posters that I have the most confidence that will not spread any sort of malware. In theory, he could be in good faith, yet there could be something nasty hidden in the image that he didn't know of. That could also happen to some person that I know personally and know that is very malware aware. If you click on any link at all, there is a certain risk that you cannot avoid. I consider OriginalGriff trustworthy. I consider YouTube reasonably trustworthy. With those two taken together, I did trust that the link was safe and clicked on it. Well, I wasn't too fascinated by the video clip, not my kid of stuff. You didn't miss anything essential. But if you need someone more trustworthy that OriginalGriff, and a more reliable link target than YouTube, before you click a link, then you miss out on a lot.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Possibly in this specific case. But I have several times on CP explicitly asking other readers what is behind a quoted link, stating that they do not want to follow it themselves. I doubt that all of these were jokes. It is difficult to know when what appears as carefulness is a joke and when it it serious.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
