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everdrive ◴[] No.45102820[source]
I'm genuinely perplexed why people find link previews useful. The page image is too small to really see, and it's not as if rapidly opening and closing a tab actually takes effort. It may be faster than the long click depending how comfortable you are with keyboard controls.

I have other questions as well -- does the link preview ignore your plugins? So if you loaded the web page, would uBlock Origin prevent tracking which is _not_ prevented when loading the preview? If you have a phishing test url with a unique identifier, do you flunk the test even if you don't click through?

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1. 1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[] No.45112324[source]
It seems like Firefox (Mozilla) looks for any excuse to make an HTTP request

I can't think of another software program I have ever seen that makes so many non-user-initiated, i.e., automatic, HTTP requests by default; some of this behaviour cannot be disabled

Of course the default telemetry is infamous