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An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"

  • targetx@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    Nice example!

    I think proxying everything through lemmy would have a pretty big bandwidth/scalability impact. I expect the lemmy clients dont send any unique user info on these image requests so not sure how useful it would be as a spy pixel? Maybe I’m missing something :-)

    • Goddard Guryon@sopuli.xyz
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      2 years ago

      It would be interesting to see just how much info is shared when lemmy requests the image. If there is [potentially] sensitive info being shared, the devs might be interested in working on it too (I have no idea how to check such a thing, this comment is just so I can find the post later when more people have shared their wisdom on it)