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What is the point of this link? Why encourage HN users to click on it?

It's like "Amigo, there is something breaking on that official website! But it's in russian so here is the link to google translate".

Literally, it makes any google translate page untrustworthy.

Although... Does this not require one to click on a link in a framed google translate page before displaying its payload? In other words, it doesn't seem like one could simply submit a URL to HN that, when clicked, displays some inauthentic news headline on your screen with a GUC.com address in the location bar. Is that not correct?

It can work w/o a click. Two caveats:

1) chrome blocks straightforward window.open if no click happened

2) user doesn't really expect automatic popup. So it's not how phishing should behave

3) yes, it CAN work similarly on HN, in case you are Paul Graham (if you can change HTML on front page)

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