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Part of the goal here is to prevent people from clicking on malicious links. A preview helps with that. Or, more simply, you can't be rickrolled if you know th

Part of the goal here is to prevent people from clicking on malicious links. A preview helps with that. Or, more simply, you can't be rickrolled if you know the destination in advance.

netsharc 6y ago
The next level would be for the server to see who is requesting content. Facebook IP? "Here's some harmless HTML!". Browser IP? "Here's an executable pretending to be a harmless page!"