Re: URL expertise needed, please!

On 2025-06-26 19:04:19 +0000, David B. said:

On 26/06/2025 17:21, Brock McNuggets wrote:

On Jun 26, 2025 at 9:14:05 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote
<mc59udFt5mkU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 26/06/2025 17:00, Brock McNuggets wrote:

On Jun 26, 2025 at 6:12:13 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote
<mc4v9dFq2feU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 25/06/2025 09:40, David B. wrote:

On 25/06/2025 08:00, David B. wrote:

On 25/06/2025 07:19, David B. wrote:

On 24/06/2025 23:48, Brock McNuggets wrote:

On Jun 24, 2025 at 2:51:19 PM MST, ""David B."" wrote
<mc0kunF3ot9U3@mid.individual.net>:

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Most honest folk don't remove their persona from LinkedIn.

 Where did you get this from?

 LinkedIn, of course!
 This may help too:- https://i.ibb.co/LXtfG3Kk/Image-26-08-2023-
at-10-09.jpg[....]

 For some reason, when clicking on the link in that image, the 'y' (two of them) have been removed from the URL and it say "page not found" (or similar!)
 Like this:-  httos://www.canadacompanvregistrv.com/companies/etresoft-inc/
 This is what it SHOULD show:- https://www.canadacompanyregistry.com/
companies/etresoft-inc/
 Can anyone explain, please?
 Thanks.

 I've just noticed that https was also changed ..... to httos
 Odd!
 Comments welcomed!

 I had hoped SOMEONE might know!!!
 It's not TOO late to respond! ;-)

 You clicked a link on an image?

 *YES*!
 In THIS image https://i.ibb.co/LXtfG3Kk/Image-26-08-2023-at-10-09.jpg
 The lowest three items in a blue font are LIVE links! (Using Safari)

 No, it is am image.
 Some tools will do automatic OCR, though, to try to read it. Sounds like
whatever tool you used had a failure in that.
 Using Shottr I had it look at a rectangle and it got this:
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found here: https://www.canadacompanyregistry.com/companies/etresoft-inc/
PO Box number!!!!!
C forums - https://discussions.apple.com/profile/HunterBD/participation - but was 'banned' whe ils on Linkedin here:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/boaterdave/duct!
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 All I do is hover my cursor over the blue font item(s) and it turns into
an active link. This only happens with Safari, not Firefox or Chrome.

Newer versions of Apple's operating systems have the silly "Live Text" 'feature' that automatically tries to create normal text, links, phone numbers, etc. from words in images. It 'works' in many apps, but not all. Like any optical character recognition, it can be rather hopeless, especially on low-quality images, small font sizes, or blurry high-compression images. It is really just another useless Artifical Intelligence gimmick that does not work properly and is designed to make fools waste money on a newer, more powerful computer to get all the new toys.
Just ignore the rubbish and simply retype the text yourself. Even better, turn the nonsense gimmick off completely:
<https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/disable-live-text-mac/>