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A comment on Signal: No evidence that 0day is real.

Re:Signal: No evidence that 0day is real by tjrgergw on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:25AM (#37897440)
> If you haven't already, disable generate link preview in Signal settings under chats.

I mean... if you care about privacy but have "link preview" enabled, get your head checked.

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Re:Signal: No evidence that 0day is real by uselpa on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:48AM (#37897964)
which is why it should be opt-in, not opt-out
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Re:Signal: No evidence that 0day is real by ancientworldnow on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:07AM (#37898643)
It is opt-in.
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Re:Signal: No evidence that 0day is real by sweatypalmer on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:50AM (#37897980)
If you kept reading you'd see that the previews are actually generated by the sender. So it's unlikely there's any privacy leakage happening at all.

But even if there was, I'm not sure why you're assuming that someone would need to get their head checked if they are using a default feature.

Even if you turn off link previews you would still receive link previews. You just don't send the link previews.

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