Joe :fedora: :debian: :ferris: (@Joe_0237@fosstodon.org)
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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.

@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/

  • library_napper@monyet.cc
    10·
    1 year ago

    Google would argue that this is a security feature.

    Many business intentionally do this in google hosted email. It allows google to display warmings about links to malicious websites