Joe :fedora: :debian: :ferris: (@[email protected])
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Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far.

@[email protected] wrote:

Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far.

  • @[email protected]
    English
    8•9 months ago

    Thanks. Got it. Could a pihole potentially block this?

    Edit: nvm then you just simply couldn’t open the links.

    • @[email protected]
      8•9 months ago

      Afaik there are browser extensions that find and replace these kinds of tracking links with the original ones.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•9 months ago

      It’s probably easy enough to write a script that will go through the generated HTML and just scrub out the Google.