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      FYI for anyone thinking it’s a link to a website, it’s NOT. It’s a file download. I hate it when people hide the actual URL. I don’t want to download any files!

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        More specifically, it’s an xlsx spreadsheet.

        Not that showing the URL would’ve revealed that information. The URL includes the word “download” but that doesn’t really say much.

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          So you just happily download malware and viruses from random URLs? Good to know.

          I’m getting ready a download file just for people like you. I will let you download it as soon as it’s ready.

          Can you just tell me what OS are you using?

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              Simply clicking a link to open a website would never infect your machine. Only certain files are loaded in websites, like images, html, css, and JavaScript runs in a sandbox. I.e. you are safe clicking links, browsing the web and letting the browser handle security of those website files.

              Downloading files to your machine carries a much bigger risk.

              That’s how the internet works.

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                Simply clicking a link to open a website would never infect your machine.

                Exploit to escape the js sandbox exists, there is a dozen brower 0day per year.

                Only certain files are loaded in websites

                Any files are downloaded and loaded, javascript can download arbitrary file in memory, browser too if the server serves incorrect MIME types.

                Downloading files to your machine carries a much bigger risk.

                The files are downloaded on your machines either case, when the browser do it, it still write the files on disk in it’s cache.

                That’s how the internet works.

                Given your other comments, I’d argue you dont know how it works.

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                  The files are downloaded on your machines either case, when the browser do it, it still write the files on disk in it’s cache.

                  You clearly don’t know why Chrome uses such massive amounts of RAM.

                  server serves incorrect MIME types

                  Those are checked by the browser and any mismatch is highlighted as suspicious.

                  I guess you might still be using Netscape.

                  Given your other comments, I’d argue you don’t know how it works.

                  Go ask AI again to help you reply again.

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                    You clearly don’t know why Chrome uses such massive amounts of RAM.

                    You clearly have no idea how modern browsers works.

                    Those are checked by the browser and any mismatch is highlighted as suspicious.

                    Yep, you have no idea, you spew nonsense.

                    Go ask AI again to help you reply again.

                    You should ask AI, you would learn something.
                    I dont need, I worked as a dev on webapps, so I know what a browser do.
                    Let me introduce you to: caching.
                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_cache
                    Which store on disk all the thing the browser query.