When clicking on links in comments, I wish that instead of opening the link immediately it would give a sort of context menu so you can at least see where the link goes to or maybe copy/ share the link.

It’s incredibly annoying clicking on embedded links to YouTube/ other apps, getting yanked out of Boost and having to close the video, back out of YouTube, reopen Lemmy… All for a link I never would’ve opened had I been able to see it.

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t that what happens if you long tap on a link?

    I also use URLCheck which does this for every link, on top of whatever each app does, in order to kill trackers. That might help in your situation too

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      9 months ago

      Ha! So it is. I’d tried this before, but I think I was not long-tapping directly on the link because I was just collapsing the comment.

      It would be nice if there was an option to change the default behavior, as I’m too stupid to remember to long press every link I see. But that’s being a bit nitpicky.