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imessage won't auto-load previews until you ask it to do it the first time.
Ideally one could enable previews only from contacts.
it also happens on the macOS and there is no way to disable it.
What's wrong with web hosts nowadays? a few 100 users and everything dies. Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
Wordpress with no caching plugin on a $5-a-month droplet, that's what. It's a pleasant enough platform to use, but if you don't cache content and you make the HN frontpage, you're gonna have a bad time.
Sending the requests from the client is probably not the most secure idea. Requests should be proxied through a cloud server on Apple's end to reduce the security risk of these previews.
Apple should fetch the data via their servers instead of the clients'. It leaks way too much information.
Messages are end-to-end encrypted in iMessage, meaning Apple cannot read the message contents. This solution would require Apple to bypass that encryption for URLs (which are often privacy-sensitive). A good approach would be for the sender to fetch the URL and embed the preview as metadata along with the message. The only downside is that the sender could spoof the preview, but I think that's an acceptable trade-off…
At the end of the day this privacy trade off (apple gets your browsing info) is probably more secure than an embedded webview that could potentially be exploited and is auto-loaded. Similar to how Chrome alerts of malicious sites...I see this as a long term larger attack vector than privacy leakage.
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Wordpress with no caching plugin on a $5-a-month droplet, that's what. It's a pleasant enough platform to use, but if you don't cache content and you make the HN frontpage, you're gonna have a bad time.
If you are going to use a out of the box like wordpress why use a VPS instead of a hosting provider? Purely just to store your own data?
Sending the requests from the client is probably not the most secure idea. Requests should be proxied through a cloud server on Apple's end to reduce the security risk of these previews.
As has been pointed out below, iMessages are end-to-end encrypted so Apple has no way to read the URL to proxy it.
tl;dr iMessage now previews links automatically > The updated iMessage loads the link preview and in essence clicks the link for you! That’s what irks us with this, the choice. OK we might not stop people clicking links anytime soon but Apple have taken this very choice away from us and facilitate the information leakage. The very act of receiving an SMS message can reveal your rough geographic location, your cellula…
Sending the requests from the client is probably not the most secure idea. Requests should be proxied through a cloud server on Apple's end to reduce the security risk of these previews.
As has been pointed out below, iMessages are end-to-end encrypted so Apple has no way to read the URL to proxy it.