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stillatit 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview ...

Not sure how much of an attack that is. FWIW the preloading is nice as a user.

lysp 8 months ago [–]

Is the request coming from the user's IP or via a Twitter proxy?

As a plain webview would mean that you can grab everyone's details.

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