I donât know how the StreetView embeddings on posts like this one are done, but the feature should be deactivated. Many people donât want to use Google services and OSM shouldnât be a place where they are embedded without consent.
I didnât know it would show the embedded view when I pasted the link, but I was pleasantly surprised that it did. Please leave this feature turned on!
I dislike automatically expanding tracking google links too. I think Discourse does that automatically with all links which are pasted on line by itself; Iâm not sure if it could be disabled pre-domain-level for low-privacy actors like google, facebook and their ilk.
Thatâs why I run uBlock origin to block all content trying to come to my browser from them (so I had to expend extra effort to even see what you were talking about @Discostu36).
Nuke 'em from orbit, itâs the only way to be sureâŚ
Yeah, if you feel strongly about not connecting to Google servers, please just block it in your own browser; donât inconvenience everyone else.
It is not possible to block anything in Firefox for iOS. I am also baffled that you give my personal data to Google without my consent and then tell me that I didnât fight hard enough against it.
I run uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android. Blame Apple for not allowing real Firefox on iOS.
The problem is that connecting to sites / services in the USA or run by US entities without consent from the user is literally breaking the law in a number of countries, so weâre going to need a solution one way or the other that doesnât depend on the poster actively doing something.