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This post knows where you're viewing it from (Lemmy doesn't proxy external images) [ARCHIVED]
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This is true for most link aggregators that attempt to render external content. Proxying images and videos would dramatically increase costs.
If you care that much about anonymity, use a VPN/Tor and a browser with advanced fingerprinting resistance — tor browser, mullvad browser, or firefox with resist fingerprinting = true.
That makes sense. But I guess there’s these questions: at what resolution? For how long? Maybe the status quo is such because it’s simpler code. The project is still relatively young. I wonder where/how we can discuss these things?
It still adds up fast especially if you run an instance that stores to s3 with a cdn. My mastodon server racked up 1k in cdn usage one month before I switched to local storage no cdn.
At the very least setting referer policy headers and such would be a good addition.
That's great except those browsers often don't work.