@netizenparty Welcome. I think today we're expected to live in an Internet culture, but the level of education about how the Internet works is virtually nonexistent for non-technical audiences.
Imagine a city of netizens who can't read street signs, and who allow themselves to be (mis)directed by any colorful display or printed map that floats by. The people who are maintaining this city have arrived at the idea that they installed the street signs (of course) for their own use; instructing netizens to check them is frowned upon. If you require the security of verifying who/which address you're actually traveling to, you're given the advice to "avoid all web links and use apps from the app store instead".
Consider this... Some banks now require a verified app to access their services. That means you cannot use a PC or a libre mobile OS to access them. In other cases, users assume this must be the situation because they cannot imagine non-app access to a bank anymore, despite their bank offering web access (sometimes I check this). IMO, this is a major threat to the viability of the Internet. As cultures go, it appears to be one that has passed its heyday and is now in steep decline. The richest and arguably most powerful man in the world claims that in the near future his single app 'X' will be the preferred way to access all types of online services.
this is as described and all works
still in use today!