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		guelo on Oct 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter's mandatory link shortener, t.co, was down How does the fake link hover work? With Javascript turned off the first time I hover over a link I see the google redirect url but the second time I hover I see the fake url.

hrrsn on Oct 8, 2012 | [–]

<a href="http://www.fakehover.com onclick="window.location='http://www.goto.com/>; I presume.

damncabbage on Oct 9, 2012 | [–]

Explanation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4630082

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