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Redirect logged out users to canonical URLs for remote accounts #2299

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This is clearer for users (showing all posts, as one would expect), while patching a potential vector for leaking information to search engines/etc.

Related: #2225, mastodon#21203

This is clearer for users (showing all posts, as one would expect),
while patching a potential vector for leaking information to search
engines/etc.

Related: glitch-soc#2225, mastodon#21203
@WesleyAC WesleyAC force-pushed the redirect-unauthed-remote-profile branch from 8c0d64c to 72d92c7 Compare July 13, 2023 20:38
@WesleyAC WesleyAC changed the title Redirect logged out users to canonical URLs for remote users Redirect logged out users to canonical URLs for remote accounts Jul 13, 2023
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Plastikmensch commented Jul 13, 2023

This does raise some concerns.
A single click (in the profile directory for example) navigating to a different site is somewhat unexpected and might lead to leakage/exposing users to potentially malicious instances when browsing instances which have bad moderation policies.

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