In these moments we have the possibility of share all types of content with our contacts in different ways. These types of applications are no longer limited to sending and receiving text messages, but go much further as most of you already know. Along these same lines we are going to focus on a novelty that many users have been requesting for a long time and that focuses on the sharing of links.
And it has become quite common for us to send and receive links corresponding to different web pages through WhatsApp. On many occasions we even send those links to ourselves as a reminder for the future. But despite the usefulness of all this, the way this system works is somewhat annoying for almost everyone.
The main reason for all this is the preview that the messaging application shows by default when receiving said link. Apart from it, we find a preview image of the shared website as well as the initial text of it. On the one hand, this eliminates the entire surprise factor, if that is what we were looking for, for the recipient of the website we have just sent.
Besides, fill the chat window with content in the event that, for example, we send several of these links consecutively. Hence, we will soon have the possibility of activating a function that eliminates all this preview data.
What is the risk of this WhatsApp feature
just like that we will receive the link as such, without more frills or content. At the moment it is a feature that is in the testing period and will soon reach the stable version of the messaging application.
Keep in mind that it will be a function that we will have to activate manually, since it will be disabled by default. All this through the configuration window of the WhatsApp app itself. From there, when we receive a message in the form of a web link, only its URL will be displayed in the chat window. However, for many this can pose a serious risk to our mobile phone and its data.
The main reason for all this is that it is increasingly common for us to receive this type of messages from unknown contacts. By having a preview of the website received in our account, we get an idea from the first moment of its content and nature before opening it. However, with this new feature activated we will not be able to see the preview of all its contents, which can pose a serious risk.
And sometimes by simply accessing certain malicious websites that we could receive through WhatsApp, some type of malware can be installed on our mobile. This means that the new feature we are talking about may not be the most suitable for everything related to security. From there it will be up to each person to activate it or not.