While every web browser still has a URL bar that allows someone to enter a website address, but with shinier interfaces and toys available, the role of the direct URLis being diminished.
Lee Graves, who authored the eSoft blog post on the fake YouTube pages, says the prescription to avoid them is as simple as checking theURL bar in your browser.
Most smartphones and even many feature phones have good enough web browsers and data connections to display a simple mobile-friendly web page, but trying to correctly type a URL on even the best smartphone is a pretty tedious and error-prone activity.