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On the one hand it provides a greater user-experience if Whatsapp can figure out the URL and preview information about the posted URL (like any social network d
by philippz 9y ago
On the one hand it provides a greater user-experience if Whatsapp can figure out the URL and preview information about the posted URL (like any social network does today, even we do it at STOMT when you attach an URL to your feedback).
On the other hand i do not get why they send it after every character. Makes it even faster but creates a bunch of unnecessary requests. Not very user friendly. They could do it after they recognize a finished URL (as soon as there is a space). And as pointed out in the tweets it COULD harms the users privacy.
- benologist 9y agoThey're probably trying to prefetch the URLs so they're loaded by the time you want it, just not a nice way of doing it.
- philippz 9y agoYeah right.