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notdang on April 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones

Another big problem is that Whatsapp automatically previews the URLs, thus leaking the IP of the person. I could not find a way do disable link previews.

bombcar on April 22, 2021 [–]

That’s annoying- many chat programs just leak the cache or chat server as they pull the websnippet there.

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