People say Qt sucks. But there is literally no better alternative to the KDE environment. Either Dolphin or tons of other apps just have more features and settings compared to GTK ones.

Unsure if they have the same issue

While good for privacy, this sounds like an awful UX change for the average person. Some sort of nice toggle to disable it would be good, but removing it all together would probably annoy more people than it benefits.

I went and checked out Thunar because of this post, and regardless of the original intention, I have found a file manager I much prefer as a result. Thank you.

Thunar is a much better alternative, in my opinion.

Oh no! Anyways ...

Good thing I use the Flatpak version of Sushi, I’ll just remove the network permission.

Good to know, even though I'm not a Gnome user. I wonder if it will work with torsocks.

Thanks for tipping the previewer's name. Not concerned with the (valid) sec aspect personally, but I've accidentally hit space a couple of times since meta+shift+space is Sway's default for floating / tiling a window and I don't use the preview anyway. Let's uninstall.

Well its also a simple browser so it will preview the HTML page like any other browser would. But I don't know about audio files though.

OpenSnitch, do your thing!

It probably downloads remote images in PDFs too, but I don’t know that for sure.

Does KDE's Dolphin suffer from this, too?

Use the image viewer used by TAILS

Thanks for the tip! Despite never actually using sushi, I had it installed so now I've uninstalled it to avoid using it by accident.

Still not worse than the simple act of having to use gnome for longer than it takes to install something, anything else