@Joe_0237@fosstodon.org wrote:
Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far.
Google Docs exports automatically infected with tracking links:
txt - unaffected html + AFFECTED odt - unaffected pdf - unaffected epub + AFFECTED rtf - unaffected docx - unaffected
sample web html tag:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/sample epub xhtml tag:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Thanks. Got it. Could a pihole potentially block this?
Edit: nvm then you just simply couldn’t open the links.
Afaik there are browser extensions that find and replace these kinds of tracking links with the original ones.
Oh, right. Like clearURL and certain ublock origin lists?
It’s probably easy enough to write a script that will go through the generated HTML and just scrub out the Google.