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Microsoft does this with Skype too. They say it's for detecting malicious links.
It's what else might be going on with the link analysis that's worrisome.
Huh, but why? I can totally understand scanning a PDF for links to look for malicious links to protect users. But that wouldn't involve actual HTTP requests to them. I'm struggling to imagine what purpose this could have.
How do you know if they're malicious if you don't make HTTP requests to them? One of the things that phishers and others do is use link wrapping and other services to hide malicious links. So, I get something.wordpress.com/something-clean. I then put in an HTML or JS redirect on that page to something malicious. Given that browsers don't warn about HTTP, HTML, or JS redirects, it's an easy way for scammers to get aro…
look-alike domains are phishing vector that don't require you to make an http request.
This should not be news to anyone. Facebook scans all links posted in Messenger.
Are there any comparable hosted messaging services that don't do this?
This will keep happening until they enable e2e. I’ve had Facebook block several links sent in private message groups, to completely legal and safe sites (Messenger prints out an obscure API error and refuses to send the content). They have done this for a long time.
Are there any comparable hosted messaging services that don't do this?
signal/telegram
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360022474332-Li...
The service being previewed doesn't know who you are because Signal acts as a proxy, Signal doesn't know what you previewed on that service because their client deliberately sends overlapping Range requests so that the preview size is rounded.
This will keep happening until they enable e2e. I’ve had Facebook block several links sent in private message groups, to completely legal and safe sites (Messenger prints out an obscure API error and refuses to send the content). They have done this for a long time.
This will keep happening until they enable e2e. I’ve had Facebook block several links sent in private message groups, to completely legal and safe sites (Messenger prints out an obscure API error and refuses to send the content). They have done this for a long time.
You can choose to enable e2e on Messenger