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Why not have the sender do that work so Apple can just stay out of it?
The sender could be a dumb SMS client. I'd be happy to just turn off previews entirely.
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…
What makes this more frustrating is that the link previews are a pretty terrible user experience.
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Why not have the sender do that work so Apple can just stay out of it?
The sender could be a dumb SMS client. I'd be happy to just turn off previews entirely.
It seems that whenever we try to make software helpful we produce more problems.
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.
What's wrong with web hosts nowadays? a few 100 users and everything dies. Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
Should of course still be no problem for any server that serves cached content, but somehow that number of requests brings down a fair amount of frontpage posts..
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never install the .0 version of anything We're already on 10.0.2, so we've already had a few updates.
Are we? Go figure - I've been getting the installer popups from Springboard for a while, but I guess it doesn't show minor versions if the major versions differ; it's just been saying "iOS 10", and I took that to mean no patches had been released. So I suppose I should say rather I would expect to see it corrected in iOS 10.1, at latest.
This sort of change (fixing link previews) is similar in scope to changes Apple's made in micro (0.0.1) releases before. Whether it happens in a micro release or wait until 10.1 (or even change anything at all) really depends on how important Apple thinks the issue is.
At any rate, I doubt the feature is going away completely (link previews were a flagship iOS 10 feature): at best, I'd expect a "Automatically preview links" checkbox in Settings, just like external image downloads in Mail.
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I would have figured Apple proxied the preview to their own URL crawler which could automagically pluck the best preview image, similar to the magic that FB / Slack do when sharing a link. This would mask the IP / Geo and Apple could cache a preview image.
It would also expose any URL you send or receive via iMessage to Apple, whereas messages are otherwise end-to-end encrypted.