brave/brave-browser

option to always show punycode encoding of international domain names

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#17,232 opened on Jul 29, 2021

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in light of these recent phishing campaigns targeting brave and cryptocurrency users [1], we should consider adding a preference to always show punycode instead of IDN. could perhaps look at what ungoogled chromium does: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1431#issuecomment-444166133

[1] https://twitter.com/martijn_grooten/status/1420480947863048192

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Investigate ungoogled chromium's IDN display preference implementation and Brave's settings system to add a user option to always show punycode.
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