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“There’s no surefire way to detect either malicious Google ads or punycode-encoded URLs. Posting ķeepass.info into all five major browsers leads to the imposter site.”

Ah, yes. But, using Privacy Browser Android, the true punycode URL of xn--eepass-vbb.info/ is revealed.

arstechnica.com/security/2023/

Soren Stoutner

A reminder that browsers should never try to simplify or hide the URL from the user.

@privacybrowser Firefox can show punycode by setting network.IDN_show_punycode = true, but I agree that browsers should do that by default…