Don't be surprised. While I can see 2 sides to this argument (it was discussed earlier here on HN, link below), we shouldn't be too surprised by what some compa

Don't be surprised. While I can see 2 sides to this argument (it was discussed earlier here on HN, link below), we shouldn't be too surprised by what some companies do to "optimize," their products. Microsoft autocrawling http(s) links could be either for obtaining new bing search results (and it could make that result relative to your conversation), or it could be for security to screen links. I don't know, but I agree that if you have a secret conversation, take steps like PGP to keep it secret. Big Brother is ALWAYS listening :: usually a good preventative security motivation ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5721006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5721006