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Option to generate URL previews at the receiving client, not the server
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Description
If the URL previews are enabled the riot-web app makes a request to
`https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/preview_url` (assuming that matrix.org is your home-server). This would not be necessary if the app runs inside of electron. The sesstion.webRequest API could be used instead.
Benefits: For E2E rooms the user could have the URL preview without 'leaking' content of the chat to the home-server. The server doesn't need to proxy that much additional requests (can handle more users - theoretically)
See: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/3640
Related to vector-im/element-web#2084
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