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That's trivial to do where you control the link text. For example: https://www.google.com/
Sorry, I don't mean the link text itself, but the destination shown in the status bar in the bottom left of my desktop browser.
Yeah that shouldn't be possible on a platform like LInkedin or Facebook. If it's a site you control, though, it's still easy. I can't do it here (at least I hope I can't) but here's an example of it: https://jsfiddle.net/z2pLaxto/1/
Yes, that looks exactly like what is happening. For clarity though it is a LinkedIn script not one uploaded by a 3rd party.
It seems to apply to links sent in direct messages which are routed through a linkedin internal page, I assume so they can track you out etc.
It was more the principal of it though, I hadn't considered that the link shown in the status bar could not be the link you would be taken to if you click it but I guess that's part of allowing javascript to run.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.google.com/
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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