I don't understand why lawyers haven't gotten on this train yet. The number of possible class action lawsuits must be unbelievable

Not sure I follow. Why wouldn't a browser download it?

I assume they mean:

<script><a href="/honeypot">Click Here!</a></script>

It would fool the dumber web crawlers.

I remember seeing browser extensions that would preload links to show thumbnails. I was thinking about zip bombing crawlers then realized the users of such extensions might receive zip bombs as well.

I mean I have noticed that some crawlers / html analysis tools don't handle this scenario, but it seems like such a low bar not sure why it is worthwhile doing it.