As reported to the lemmy devs here there is no sanity checking of links in posts currently in lemmy. Please be careful in the links you click!

Further discussion and context from the reporter here.

  • w2qw
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    1 year ago

    Do the android apps have this issue? What would they even do with a JavaScript link?

    • cuppaconcrete
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      1 year ago

      Links in post body and comments don’t show URLs so they could easily send ya to a malware site or gore/NSFW/IP logger site.

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        1 year ago

        True but op is talking about JavaScript links.