• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You do realize another way to write et al is…

    et. al.

    Miss one space, bam, your typo turns into a link these days.

    • Dusty@l.dusty-radio.com
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      1 year ago

      That’s on you, not the internet or google. As has been pointed out, dot al is a TLD for a country. Just because you can’t type properly and didn’t spell check yourself, doesn’t mean the internet is doomed.

    • Brokkr@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “et” doesn’t need to be abbreviated, it’s a full word. “al.” is short for “alia”.

      You could argue that typos shouldn’t get turned into links, but there’s simply no good way of stopping that from happening.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, yes there most certainly is a way to completely prevent that from ever happening.

        Get rid of this whole automatic link detecting shit altogether and require the use of https:// before every single link.

        Believe it or not, that’s how the internet used to work, and we didn’t have stupid shit like attachment.zip