Either way, et.al is used frequently in legal documents, at least in the USA. And they retrofit their new top level domains to old documents where it was never used as any sort of link.
et.al should be banned, literally for all previous legal court documents.
That’s on you, not the internet or google. As has been pointed out, dot al is a TLD for a country. Just because you can’t type properly and didn’t spell check yourself, doesn’t mean the internet is doomed.
You’re missing the point. Lemme test yet another thing (do not click if this pops up as a link)…
google.bullshit
^ See, I don’t know what dot nonsense they do and don’t accept anymore, but I’m gonna make an educated guess before I post that for at least some users that’ll display as a link.
The original top level domains were only .com, .net, .org, and .gov. Your fancy country top level domains were never part of the original internet plan.
calling other countries TLDs bullshit is quite a take
Either way, et.al is used frequently in legal documents, at least in the USA. And they retrofit their new top level domains to old documents where it was never used as any sort of link.
et.al should be banned, literally for all previous legal court documents.
I think it was a typo, the phrase is usually written “et al.” which cannot be confused with a domain.
Also, what’s the difference between a typo and an autocorrect glitch unnoticed?
If one single dot is the difference between legit words vs a janky link, the internet is doomed.
attachment.zip
Perhaps it was.
goggle.com was once a typo as well.
You do realize another way to write et al is…
et. al.
Miss one space, bam, your typo turns into a link these days.
That’s on you, not the internet or google. As has been pointed out, dot al is a TLD for a country. Just because you can’t type properly and didn’t spell check yourself, doesn’t mean the internet is doomed.
You make typo, send it to friend, friend clicks link…
Is that origin.al or not?
“et” doesn’t need to be abbreviated, it’s a full word. “al.” is short for “alia”.
You could argue that typos shouldn’t get turned into links, but there’s simply no good way of stopping that from happening.
Yes, yes there most certainly is a way to completely prevent that from ever happening.
Get rid of this whole automatic link detecting shit altogether and require the use of https:// before every single link.
Believe it or not, that’s how the internet used to work, and we didn’t have stupid shit like attachment.zip
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That et is exclusively for Albanian use.
You’re missing the point. Lemme test yet another thing (do not click if this pops up as a link)…
google.bullshit
^ See, I don’t know what dot nonsense they do and don’t accept anymore, but I’m gonna make an educated guess before I post that for at least some users that’ll display as a link.
The original top level domains were only .com, .net, .org, and .gov. Your fancy country top level domains were never part of the original internet plan.
Is that origin.al or not?
Whoops, my bad, I must have made a typo somewhere…
One accidental dot, which happens to be near the letter N on the keyboard, can be the difference between a word and a link.
Do you really wanna see the effects of someone registering origin.al …?