Recently Colin Hardy posted a video where he demonstrated how the WhatsApp web client leaks the user’s IP address when computing URL previews. All of the sudden the entire web freaked out because of this behavior, while in my opinion there isn’t much to be scared of. Before reading this post, check out Colin’s video to see the issue yourself. From the outside, it might seem that WhatsApp thrown away every possible privacy measure out of the window just because of a cool feature - that n...
