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I tested it in Firefox and Chrome. While they both display a spoofed URL in the status bar when hovered, they differ if you right-click the link. In Chrome, nothing changes. In Firefox the status bar string changes to the actual, not spoofed URL.

At least in Firefox, one can check easily what the actual URL is before clicking without having to copy-paste elsewhere.




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