A "link" is a DOM element in a web page which references a URL, but a URL is not itself a link. To point a finer point on it: the fact that a URL is referenced in a link means that a user is supposed to see and access it.
Should you not have the freedom to type what you want into the address bar of a browser?
This is like going to a library, asking the librarian if you can check out a book, being told yes, and then later being arrested because they meant to say "no".
I think the real question here is: did the website provide enough information for the user to have been assumed to understand that what they were accessing wasn’t meant to be public (e.g. did the door look like a door to a private property)? And did the user cease to access the data once they understood it (e.g. did they close the door and leave)?
It implies the exact opposite. The owner may have intended it to be private, but making it publicly available, without security checks on a publicly accessible server, implies the property owner intended for people to access that property.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nextprev-page...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/urlnext/emepkgfiam...
> In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow either by clicking, tapping, or hovering. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. The text that is linked from is called anchor text. A software system that is used for viewing and creating hypertext is a hypertext system, and to create a hyperlink is to hyperlink (or simply to link). A user following hyperlinks is said to navigate or browse the hypertext.
The URL in the abstract is not a "link." A link is an element in hypertext.
Whether we like it or not, language evolves. If “literally” can, then literally any other word can too.