If I understand right that means link previews are requested every single time an user sees it? The instance should request it once a week, cache it and serve that to users
Moonrise2473
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The average people don't know the concept of browser. I saw people using Google search (the app) as a browser. I saw people trying to login in their webmail using Google search (the app), then in order to see what photo they wanted to upload they went back to home by closing the WebView, watching the photo, then using again the Google search app to login in their webmail. Extremely infuriating, I wanted to die.
Yes but let's remember everyone that Apple did their "best" in this. If a developer makes a browser that doesn't use WebKit, then can publish that version only in Europe. For the rest of the world it's still forced to publish the usual "Safari skin". Basically doubling the work and the monetary cost of developing a browser.
Resisting? It was a clear strategy: use VC money to give away something for free then charge/monetize to give back those investors all the money, with interests
I'm kinda hoping it was just that a state sponsored attacker showed up on their door and said "include this snippet or else..." otherwise it's terrifying thinking of someone planning some long con like this
We are all relying on the honesty of a few overworked volunteers...
From that post, commits set to UTC+0800 and activity between UTC 12-17 indicate that the programmer wasn't operating from California but from another country starting with C. The name is also another hint.
Unrelated, I really like the idea that the author of that blog post to place the favicon near each link
TIL that my country has bended over the copyright trolls and blocked Archive.is, need a VPN to view...
It's available on an unofficial repository that can be optionally added to fdroid, it's not available on fdroid
On mobile you're forced to use their "open source" app that is only available on the closed source app stores and not on fdroid because it uses Google push services
My iMac on debian does the same, black screen on boot
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Or serve a gzip bomb (is that possible?)