Allowing tainted data in to the dataset means every single client has to do every single spot of content rendering correctly or else be vulnerable to easy hacking. Keeping it out of the dataset means not all clients have to be perfect for Lemmy to be a secure place.
Allowing tainted data in to the dataset means every single client has to do every single spot of content rendering correctly or else be vulnerable to easy hacking. Keeping it out of the dataset means not all clients have to be perfect for Lemmy to be a secure place.
The point of encoding, the process of representing data in a different way, is to have the data set not be tainted. :)
Here, for example: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp