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Re: [LUG] 20180920 OT. (perhaps?) Help please. To understand why URLs differ and domains change in loading smartphone apps.
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] 20180920 OT. (perhaps?) Help please. To understand why URLs differ and domains change in loading smartphone apps.
- From: Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:52:21 +0000
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 03:28:00PM +0100, Eion MacDonald wrote:
> The “.me” domain in Ireland, seems to be third party server doing what?
>
> Can anyone advise how these work?
The domain belongs to appsflyer.com, which is a service one can use to
create multifunctional links: for example, links that go to a specific
part of an app if it is installed, or to a web page if the app isn't
installed, or one that lets you download the app for the particular
platform you're using (Android or iOS). That sounds like a sensible
thing to do from a user experience point of view.
Of course, there the issue that the domain doesn't belong to the bank
and that security experts, like myself, always warn to check a URL
before clicking a link.
In theory, this makes sense. In practice, I am sceptical about people's
ability to distinguish halifax.co.uk from halifax.co or
halifax.co.uk.scamsite.com, so maybe manually checking the URL isn't as
relevant as we think it is.
Martijn
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