ropeta
8 September 2026 11:46
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See the screenshot.
Then (automatically by the forums software?) a link to Youtube is being converted as an inline/iframe script, anyone reading that page is giving Youtube a lot of private information. It shouldn’t be like that.
Any external link should be treated as a simple link. Fix that please.
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While we wait, here’s what you can do as a user:
from https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-link-preview/47405/3
Link previews are generated IF a bare link is posted on a separate line.
To prevent your link to cause a link preview connection to other users, you can:
prefix your link with a space character
use link formatting for both link name and URL: characters, like [https://link.example.com/](https://link.example.com/)
write the link in angle brackets, i.e. <https://link.example.com>
Here’s all three examples, first being the bare link:
In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a digital reference providing direct access to data by a user's clicking or tapping. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. The text that is linked from is known as anchor text. A software system that is used for viewing and creating hypertext is a hypertext system, and to create a hyperlink is to hyperlink (or simply to link). A user following hyperlinks is said to na T...
Hyperlink - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink
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