Opinions on danger of visiting a typosquatting web site

Graphenator

This afternoon an unusually butter-fingered yours truly twice visited a typosquatting site while trying to type youtube.com in my browser. I've forgotten the domains in question: something like yourtube, or youutube.

The sites loaded, but showed black screens. I recognized my mistake, clicked away.

I was using the Fennec browser from F-droid with no extensions. (Such as uBlock origin, which I should have thought of.) The phone is a Pixel 6 with an up-to-date Graphene OS.

In the past, I have resigned myself to an OS re-install if I think I could be at risk. But I'm not up to date on Android security risks, and will guess that inadvertent visits to typosquatting sites are common.

Any opinions? Am I likely at no risk, if I didn't download or (for that matter) see anything on the sites? Or is that OS reinstall not such a paranoid idea?

raccoondad

Graphenator If you didn't install anything, you are most likely fine. Clear your browser apps data if you are really worried

Graphenator

Thank you, raccoondad!

secrec

The objective of the typo-squatting website would be to collect your login credentials. It won't have any more power to compromise your equipment than any other website, NONE of which you can trust unless you wrote them yourself.

So as long as you didn't punch in your login credentials, there's nothing to worry about.

Graphenator

Thanks also, secrec. I think I'll stick to accessing sites through a search engine while using a smartphone. I don't trust those digits.