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So, weird request/suggestion based on the attached image, which is kinda funny in of itself but i'll get to that.

I remember people noticing that with a previous Lemmy update, sometimes links to certain content - from what I can see, specifically news website articles (maybe this is amp link related because it's clearly not every webpage) and some video hosts - seemed to "auto-expand" inline on the hexbear page, allowing people to read the article or play the video without leaving the hexbear post/opening a new tab. Seemed like a cool enough feature.

This morning, I go ahead and click through to comments on a post about Leavitt wanting to denaturalise Momdani or some shit, and I get the image attached. My work sysadmin has applied a block rule to Tankie Tube which I would generally find unsurprising (small video hoster, unvetted by them so easy to just block. they've done it before to smalltime video rehosters used on the soccer subreddit because they all get nuked regularly), except they've flagged it as porn.

I find this funny because of our strict hentai-free & volcel-police stance, but unfortunately i don't think it's prudent to request a review with my work IT department to vet the site, because i then have to explain that I'm spending some time shitposting on work hours.

However, it's now a catch-22 where either I explain that Tankie Tube isn't porno but reveal that I browse hexbear on company time and get in trouble/fired, or I accidentally click posts that would otherwise be interesting and get flagged for "attempting to view porno" and get fired. I trust that none of you are dumb enough to suggest that I simply do not browse hexbear while at work LIB

So, is there a way at user-level to disable this function? There's an "Auto Expand Media" checkbox under settings, but that instead auto-expands every single image on the frontpage/postlist and doesn't have anything to do with the inline expansion of content when viewing an individual post.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Wait are there portable versions of Firefox that you could use? Then you wouldn't need administrative access to run it.