How to know whether the url your visiting is correct?

[pakhitheboss]

There have been a lot of information lately in this thread related to spam websites or copy of original website. The thing is after so many posts reminding us to check the url we still do not check it. We believe we are opening a safe link, we only realise this issue when we lose money.

To solve our laid back attitude Google chrome has provided us with few awesome extensions meant only for desktops. Here is the list of those.

• Link Checker
• Check My Links
• URL Checker

These extensions can be added to any chromium base web browsers like Brave, Microsoft edge and Opera. You can add any of the above three extensions and they will notify you whether the url you are visiting is correct or not.

Try it yourself!

[jackg]

Do some of thsrs sites load up links on pages?

I noticed the second for example looks like it's for devs so it might want a certain level of trust.


To me, the best way to see if you're on the right site is just by typing out the link or the Web domain and navigating through or pasting the extension after it...

[pakhitheboss]

They do notify whenever you are on a particular url. You have to add them and try them, one or the other will do give you notification and sometimes if it does not then you know you have to check the url. I installed all of them on my chrome browser and tried it for a month and they worked fine at that time. The only problem is that you chrome browser will load slower when you start it for the first time.

[seoincorporation]

The problem about right urls is about where we click to open the site. Is a bad practice to click in third party sites to open an important site like our mail or our wallet. The secure way is to save those sites on our bookmark on the navigator and always open them from the right source.

To verify each site we visit could be something complex, and not anyone will take the time for a double-check.

[BIT-BENDER]

Advice as this one can never expire, but let me not proud myself about this, I have heard of people with high IT knowledge, friendly with the internet get hacked or victims of cyber crime, am not in that high class but I play safe as simple as the word PLAY SAFE sound. And it has helped me over the years,
+I don't put my nose where it doesn't belong on the internet, -many are inquisitive, irrational, on the internet or what we do with our devices, if I don't have business or relationship with you I don't get inquisitive or curious about what you offer/show me-

+ Have only what I need on my device: many fancy/attractive looking apps -like games, dating app- can be from untrustworthy/evil source.

+2fa authenticator, strong password -dont just see it written everywhere use it.

+ Framing my mind that nothing is trustworthy on the Web/internet/email/social media until it's proven,.  

[pakhitheboss]

The problem about right urls is about where we click to open the site. Is a bad practice to click in third party sites to open an important site like our mail or our wallet. The secure way is to save those sites on our bookmark on the navigator and always open them from the right source.

To verify each site we visit could be something complex, and not anyone will take the time for a double-check.

The problem is that we forget that we should not open a url sent to our email. We do open it and then we lose everything believing that we did right.

These extension prohibit or recheck the url for us by notifying us whenever we open a new link or visit a url is visited.

[minairia3]

To me, the best way to see if you're on the right site is just by typing out the link or the Web domain and navigating through or pasting the extension after it...

This is the best way actually. If you knew the exact keywords either paste it on browser so it will directed to that particular site.

Just avoid some sites which have some ads-related cause it can direct some of these to another page where phishing are probably waiting. But I commend you for your suggestion OP, some of other users are often got wrong links on the site their supposed to visit this could help for the likes of them.

[hatshepsut93]

Never google the site that you want to visit for the subsequent times, and never type the address from memory - only use your bookmark. Google might return phishing results, especially in the ad section, so never click on ad results in any search engine; typing from memory is prone to misspelling or you might just forget the correct address and either way end up on a phishing website. HTTPS is important, because it protects you from man-in-the-middle attacks, but HTTPS itself isn't a guarantee that a site is legit, because scam sites can get their own certificates too.

[mk4]

• Link Checker
• Check My Links
• URL Checker

Checking out these extensions you've provided, man, it looks like these extensions are for different purposes. I don't actually get what kinda of "checker" you're suggesting.

I initially thought you were going to link this type of checker: https://urlex.org/; whereas you can paste in those bit.ly masked/shortened URLs and see where it redirects to.

Also, not to mention I wouldn't really suggest just installing extensions to your browser that you frequently use. This could be a privacy nightmare.

[Cointikka]

To me, the best way to see if you're on the right site is just by typing out the link or the Web domain and navigating through or pasting the extension after it...

This is the best way actually. If you knew the exact keywords either paste it on browser so it will directed to that particular site.

Just avoid some sites which have some ads-related cause it can direct some of these to another page where phishing are probably waiting. But I commend you for your suggestion OP, some of other users are often got wrong links on the site their supposed to visit this could help for the likes of them.

Sometimes your clip board might play games with you. You can never be certain if you have a malware already on you device. It is easy to get malware nowdays as scammers/spammers are continuously improving themselve.

These simple and yet resourceful plugin can help you when you need them most. Thanks for sharing.

[pakhitheboss]

To me, the best way to see if you're on the right site is just by typing out the link or the Web domain and navigating through or pasting the extension after it...

This is the best way actually. If you knew the exact keywords either paste it on browser so it will directed to that particular site.

Just avoid some sites which have some ads-related cause it can direct some of these to another page where phishing are probably waiting. But I commend you for your suggestion OP, some of other users are often got wrong links on the site their supposed to visit this could help for the likes of them.

Sometimes your clip board might play games with you. You can never be certain if you have a malware already on you device. It is easy to get malware nowdays as scammers/spammers are continuously improving themselve.

These simple and yet resourceful plugin can help you when you need them most. Thanks for sharing.

You are absolutely correct things are normal easy as they used to be few years back. These scammers/ spammers are always improving themselves. I found few days bac tha they have also started using proxy domain name which is nothing but a sub domain name that start with an alphabet.nwhich can be like blogg.binance.com

[Harlot]

There are also browser extensions like Netcraft where it can show you the site/url's information. Basically this information is used to detect if the site you are visiting is the real one or just a phishing website, user's who have visited the same URL can also put their risk rating on which will also determine if the site you are visiting is safe or not. I know there are other similar browser extensions out there but from what I know Netcraft is the best for free services.

[jackg]

To me, the best way to see if you're on the right site is just by typing out the link or the Web domain and navigating through or pasting the extension after it...

This is the best way actually. If you knew the exact keywords either paste it on browser so it will directed to that particular site.

Just avoid some sites which have some ads-related cause it can direct some of these to another page where phishing are probably waiting. But I commend you for your suggestion OP, some of other users are often got wrong links on the site their supposed to visit this could help for the likes of them.

Sometimes your clip board might play games with you. You can never be certain if you have a malware already on you device. It is easy to get malware nowdays as scammers/spammers are continuously improving themselve.

These simple and yet resourceful plugin can help you when you need them most. Thanks for sharing.

I meant if I were needing an important link I'd type in the domain and then add the extension on.

For example, if someone gave me a referral link to coinbase, I'd type coinbase.com/ and then copy and paste their extension? I don't think I can come under an attack from this (especially if you look at what you type too) that any plug in script could prevent...

[pakhitheboss]

To me, the best way to see if you're on the right site is just by typing out the link or the Web domain and navigating through or pasting the extension after it...

This is the best way actually. If you knew the exact keywords either paste it on browser so it will directed to that particular site.

Just avoid some sites which have some ads-related cause it can direct some of these to another page where phishing are probably waiting. But I commend you for your suggestion OP, some of other users are often got wrong links on the site their supposed to visit this could help for the likes of them.

Sometimes your clip board might play games with you. You can never be certain if you have a malware already on you device. It is easy to get malware nowdays as scammers/spammers are continuously improving themselve.

These simple and yet resourceful plugin can help you when you need them most. Thanks for sharing.

I meant if I were needing an important link I'd type in the domain and then add the extension on.

For example, if someone gave me a referral link to coinbase, I'd type coinbase.com/ and then copy and paste their extension? I don't think I can come under an attack from this (especially if you look at what you type too) that any plug in script could prevent...

OH!!
I guess you have not heard about clipboard hijacking. You can do whatever you want to but be carefull and always keep you eye when you are copying anything on your computer. There are many that these scammers can get you. I mean if you follow all the protocols but still you do not get a sale then do an antivirus check.

[mk4]

For example, if someone gave me a referral link to coinbase, I'd type coinbase.com/ and then copy and paste their extension? I don't think I can come under an attack from this (especially if you look at what you type too) that any plug in script could prevent...

OH!!
I guess you have not heard about clipboard hijacking. You can do whatever you want to but be carefull and always keep you eye when you are copying anything on your computer. There are many that these scammers can get you. I mean if you follow all the protocols but still you do not get a sale then do an antivirus check.

Well, I'm pretty sure jackg knows about that. Take another quick read on what he said. "I'd type coinbase.com/ and then copy and paste their extension"

Not sure how a clipboard hijack could be threat here if you're going to end up trying to load an dead link(e.g. coinbase.com/co1nbasesite.xyz) anyway.

[devil2man]

it could be a solution to use a url checker but personally I prefer to save the link to visit in favorites and see if it has the security lock