• Otter@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      In all seriousness, all apps and frontends should to implement countermeasures (if they haven’t already) so that you can turn off image previews as needed

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      7 months ago

      Didn’t new reddit start having that? Never saw it except when not logged in mind you.

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        7 months ago

        It did, but it was a “premium feature” - paying users would have to “boost” a community to alow them to enable this feature.

        Only when enough users boosted, the feature became available. And once that threshold was no longer reached, the feature would go away.