I was thinking that if we as fediverse should start re-thinking the concept of "embedding media" to a next level to extend privacy by design. And default.
Current situation is, when you share a e.g. youtube url most projects embedding in a classical way by default. Without you doing something, just scrolling over that post, there is data loaded from external sites by default. Ok on some apps and sites there is a banner where you have click on "Do you agree to load external data .. privacy ... blah". But if the author of the post or article doesn't tell you exactly what it is, you don't have a chance to know what you are clicking on. And let's be honest: There are a lot people out there just throwing in links without ANY information trusting the site to catch all the information and don't care about the privacy of other people.
How about we start to think that by default there is only e.g. a classic thumbnail with an included url, that was caught when the person posted it? This wouldn't load any other data. A static post.
So you could see already more information like a preview, what is in a lot situations another important decision if you click on it or not.
So you could click on it an the media opens in your preferred App oder Programm.
Additionally there could be another Button, who lets you load the embedded version, so you don't have to leave your app or Website.
Ho do you think about improving the privacy with embedded media?
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