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Wunderfitz / harbour-fernschreiber

Fernschreiber is a Telegram client for Sailfish OS
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adding feature: ''instant view'' for websites #489

Open yusssufff opened 2 years ago

yusssufff commented 2 years ago

Instant view is a nice feature of telegram android app which allows to open for exemple a newspaper article link within telegram without needing to open the browser for it. Including this ability in Fernschreiber would be a delight😊

nephros commented 1 year ago

I want to note that with many services, such web page previous constitute a privacy issue/information leak.

I do not know how Telegram implements this, but if it is done client-side, the linked-to websites would receive a request from the client, telling them at least the IP address of the user, plus any information contained in the request.

Additional tracking mechanisms might be in place depending on how the URLs are constructed.

https://www.securityweek.com/link-previews-chat-apps-pose-privacy-security-issues-researchers