While good for privacy, this sounds like an awful UX change for the average person. Some sort of nice toggle to disable it would be good, but removing it all together would probably annoy more people than it benefits.
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It could be implemented the same as most email clients do. A simple message "load external content" with an option to always load.
Woah there! This is GNOME. You don't get choices.
Maybe we will get an extension
A setting that pulls information from the clear net should be up to the user and not a default setting, IMO.
Thunar is a much better alternative, in my opinion.
Agreed. I fucking hate Nautilus - especially the way it fucking tries to filter everything instead of jumping me to where I'm typing. It makes navigation so much slower
I hate, when programs like Firefox or anything else uses something like Nautilus to pick the file.
I can't even press ctrl+L to change the URL of my filesystem where I want to be. I need a lot of clicky GUI to get to the desination...
Pcmanfm? Nemo? However, if one does not need a GUI I would suggest ranger, nnn or alike.
When in doubt, avoid anything gnome.
Well its also a simple browser so it will preview the HTML page like any other browser would. But I don't know about audio files though.
IMO a "simple browser" of this sort should display literally only the content in the HTML file itself. It shouldn't even view CSS stored in a separate local CSS file, let alone reach out to the web to download more content.
Yes but an HTML file is very different from a website. At the very least I'd like an option to disable all remote requests, or disable previews for certain file formats.
Thanks for tipping the previewer's name. Not concerned with the (valid) sec aspect personally, but I've accidentally hit space a couple of times since meta+shift+space is Sway's default for floating / tiling a window and I don't use the preview anyway. Let's uninstall.
It probably downloads remote images in PDFs too, but I don’t know that for sure.
OpenSnitch, do your thing!
People say Qt sucks. But there is literally no better alternative to the KDE environment. Either Dolphin or tons of other apps just have more features and settings compared to GTK ones.
Unsure if they have the same issue
I went and checked out Thunar because of this post, and regardless of the original intention, I have found a file manager I much prefer as a result. Thank you.
Use the image viewer used by TAILS
Thanks for the tip! Despite never actually using sushi, I had it installed so now I've uninstalled it to avoid using it by accident.
Does KDE's Dolphin suffer from this, too?
Good to know, even though I'm not a Gnome user. I wonder if it will work with torsocks.