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Would you trust every single website with permission to know who you are? Perhaps. Would you trust every single website with permission to 1-click follow other users on your behalf?...
I apologize if I'm coming across as paternalistic, but it really isn't a matter of simply choosing privacy vs. not privacy. There are some real technical and even conceptual barriers...
Custom protocol handlers is something that *could* be done, and I think has been done before, but was removed because browser support was very flaky and not a good user...
4.0 changes the hint to say "Search or paste URL", and the logged-out view provides a tutorial on how to copy-paste a URL into the search bar 
as a multilingual user i would still like to see this
This is a really tricky subject -- the problems you bring up are very real, and they aren't even the *only* problems. At the same time, there's no clear solution....
Having a limit on total followers might make sense for admins who wish to limit total capacity, sure, but it will lead to some confusing UX around remote follows, where...
> By design there is no central authority that could impose a limit on how many followers someone has. Actually, there is a central authority in this case -- it's...
I forgot that there is a MAX_FOLLOWS variable set to 7500, and a MAX_FOLLOW_RATIO of 1.1; perhaps a similar thing could be done like MAX_FOLLOWERS? The only missing part of...
Possibly related: #10384