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When clicking links in comments it would be very beneficial if a pop-up first came up that showed where the link pointed to, and then you could confirm if you want to go there or not. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sketchy when it just says whatever and then goes to some random site. Could literally be anything on the other end.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Deselect "Always Trust Domains" under Settings

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I do have that deselected. That's weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean like this? It does that by default unless you've turned the option off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have "always trust domains" off, but I don't get any pop-up like that.

Edit: it's because I also had "use external browser" on. Feel like I should still get the popup though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, this might be the reason then. I have mine set to open in external browser as well so that it opens in Firefox with add-ons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Until someone found a way to exploit it. And / or it became popular to pre roll advertisements before revealing the link preview.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something like that already exists though, no? If I hover over that whatever-link, I can see it goes to Youtube. And AFAIK all browsers do that since ~forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something like that already exists though, no? If I hover over that whatever-link, I can see it goes to Youtube. And AFAIK all browsers do that since ~forever.

But I'm posting this in an Android app forum. I don't have the ability to do that on this app on Android since it's not a browser with a cursor.