website previews appear when hovering over links in spam comments

[dbcarlton]

When I hover over a link in a comment, a website preview shows up. This is a fine feature, but I really don't think it's appropriate for spam comments: I never want to accidentally see a preview of a link associated to a spam comment, but as is that happens to me frequently if my mouse happens to be in the wrong place.

(I'm also not convinced that this behavior doesn't have security implications - I do think that there are security reasons not to navigate to malicious websites.)

[nacin]

Thanks for the report. This is done by the Akismet plugin (or maybe Jetpack).

[dbcarlton]

Replying to nacin:

Thanks for the report. This is done by the Akismet plugin (or maybe Jetpack).

Huh, I had always assumed that Akismet only did the filtering, I had no idea that it was providing the previews. But you're totally right, I disabled Akismet and the previews went away, and re-enabled and they came back. Sorry about the false report, thanks for letting me know.

[johnbillion]

Replying to dbcarlton:

(I'm also not convinced that this behavior doesn't have security implications - I do think that there are security reasons not to navigate to malicious websites.)

Just in case you weren't aware, this is done on the server side over at Akismet in order to generate the thumbnail images. Neither your browser nor your own server is navigating to the site.

[dbcarlton]

Ah, good to know, thanks!

[SergeyBiryukov]

#49289 was marked as a duplicate.