Re:Whatsapp user’s IP disclosure with Link Preview feature
by dogma1138 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @08:39AM
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I send you a link to my server you don’t need to click on it for me to know your IP.
That said there isn’t a very good solution for this.
Link preview is a user requested feature they can’t disable it.
Doing link previews on the backend would expose what you share to W/A which ain’t good either.
The only remotely viable option is that the sender must generate the link preview and then they send it but then that can be potentially exploited for other things.
That said there isn’t a very good solution for this.
Link preview is a user requested feature they can’t disable it.
Doing link previews on the backend would expose what you share to W/A which ain’t good either.
The only remotely viable option is that the sender must generate the link preview and then they send it but then that can be potentially exploited for other things.