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ruhithtoday at 12:02 PM0 repliesview on HN

The funny thing is browsers figured out years ago you need to warn users before launching random protocol handlers. Microsoft added clickable links to Notepad and just skipped that part entirely. It's not even about the feature creep, it's that they reinvented something browsers solved ages ago and somehow forgot why those safeguards existed in the first place.