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The reason is that trolls like to post links to shock sites or a google search for something terrible. Even worse, you could get rickrolled.



Some day we will have native browser support for the full URL showing in the status field.


Oh no cried the scammers, how will we ever again trick people into clicking a link


window.status to the rescue! We must override the long scam URL there!


Just wanted to say, the best part was acknowledging the worst was being rickrolled. xD




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