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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by Guest98123 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:05AM (#12957617)
Don't must of these services (Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp), load the URL to fetch a thumbnail, page title, and page description, to show in the chat window instead of just the URL?
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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by davidbielen on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:08AM (#12957635)
just compare the time the message was opened on the target client with the server-hit(s) for that URL..
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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by riprowan on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:43AM (#12958351)
The content is encrypted between you and the receiver. If you didn't hit the URL and the recipient didn't hit the URL, how did someone else hit the URL which was encrypted in the transmission?
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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by atestu on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:42AM (#12958892)
In whatsapp the URL is hit before you send the message, you can see the image/title/description pop up when you paste a link
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