We all know that there are some angry little men that like to lurk here, and it wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility that some of them LARP as women here as well. In fact, I know they do, because I've visited some of the hate subs that FDS inspired.

We know not to meet people from the sub, because the depravity of bitter men knows no bounds. We know not to message them back, if we have messages turned on at all. We know to change details in our storys to keep things unidentifiable. We know not to share personal information or anything even remotely identifiable.

However, something I've wondered about is link sharing. From time to time I'll see links to images, articles, ect. I never click them, because while I'm no expert in cyber security, I know that malicious links can be disguised, and I'm like, 99.9% sure simply visiting the page can be enough.

Your device might hold personal information, identifiable information, or whatever else. We don't want viruses, let alone ones from men who hate us particularly strongly. I put absolutely nothing past them. If a run-of-the-mill scammer can do it, why not them?

So, I never click any link posted here. I'm sure most of them are fine, and I've missed out on some things that really sounded interesting too. I just feel like it's a risk, given the above information.

Am I the only one? Did I miss something in the handbook about this? Am I mistaken in that a simple link click could infect our devices?

Edit: It's links from regular posts on the feed that I don't necessarily trust. I do trust links from the sub itself, or links posted from mods or other trusted users.