mulanderVery creepy @WhatsApp, someone was apparently typing in an URL and WhatsApp was fetching it off my server char-by-char https://mastodon.social/media/96lwJ5IyFyVXx6t85qQ
Pietro Gagliardi@mulander @KitRedgrave not sure if creepy because spying or creepy because incompetent programming (does whatsapp let you share URLs?)
@andlabs @KitRedgrave I assume it's a site preview URL like a thumbnailer. The problems I have with it are:
1. It freaking fires on each character entered, wasting bandwidth.
2. It fires while the user is still typing, if you write a toot and don't hit 'TOOT' you don't expect the world to know you entered a URL.
3. If they do it for URL's they probably keep un-submitted text like Facebook does (they were bought by FB).
@mulander it's that first thing that makes me say "incompetent"
unless the person manually typed the URL in I don't see how this could possibly happen
@andlabs what's app is mostly used on mobile. I can imagine someone re-typing an URL to a mobile (did that in the past). Granted, it's possible they just fucked up the implementation :)