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by layer8 1143 days ago
You don’t expose data just by enabling the sharing, because it’s only accessible via a URL containing a hash-like identifier that can’t be guessed. It’s not more realistic than someone guessing your Syncthing password.
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Unfortunately this is not true. Your browser likes to send any URLs it comes across to indexing services. If you share the link via Discord or whatever, it'll be scrapped.

This is also just very outside Syncthing's functionality.

> Unfortunately this is not true. Your browser likes to send any URLs it comes across to indexing services. If you share the link via Discord or whatever, it'll be scrapped.

You still have to manually create the URL first. You don't need to worry about accidentally having everything exposed because the feature is enabled.

> This is also just very outside Syncthing's functionality.

The context was specifically "as a Dropbox replacement".

It is a problem if you use Edge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35703789