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Don’t forget posting a link rarely embeds properly. Posting a YouTube video doesn’t show a player like practically every modern chat platform.

Oh and the most insulting part is how they treat its users like children. You can use giphy to embed a gif but if you search for any “bad” words it says no results. Search for fuck, and it hides them. Everyone using it is an adult, why apply this conservative boomer “nO sWeARIng alLOweD”?

To top it off if you instead copy paste a giphy url it doesn’t embed that properly either!



For the last bit, giphy basically lies to serve ads and tracking. A giphy .gif URL is not actually a .gif, or an image file even.


> Everyone using it is an adult,

It's the primary platform for entire schools, now. Whoopee. So you're going to get lots of new child protection features (that fail at their intended purpose) added.


There is pretty fine grained control for admins over that kind of stuff though.


Some of which fails GDPR compliance, and violates Microsoft's own privacy statement: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement (see the Education sections, where they say they don't collect lots of info that's collected by Teams).




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