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I believe they scrape all links pasted in Skype conversations too

• _trampeltier 5y ago
  Everybody scrape all links. Mostly for the preview function. Just s3nd a unique url with some messengers or mail and look at the serverlogs. Thats also a reason to use even a simple login.
  • donmcronald 5y ago
    Yep. My email client has message tracking built in and I forgot to disable it after a re-install once. A lot of messages are "read" immediately. I've always been curious how promotional mailers handle that.
• rolph 5y ago
  if they do scrape all the links in skype conversations, i have an idea that would keep them very busy, such as a bot that has extensive skype discussions about links
  • lrem 5y ago
    You would be neither the first nor the last with an idea how to DOS Microsoft. Being the receiving end of ideas like that is bread and butter for any of the tech megacorps.
    • rolph 5y ago
      i woudnt exactly say its a DOS, it would be an ^ample^ collection of URLs provided to any skype user that requested it. If somescript scrapes every instance of that list everytime it shows up in a conversation, there had better be a limit to the bandwidth expended
• tata71 5y ago
  and all filenames in the OS.
• fsflover 5y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837690