this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
291 points (94.0% liked)

Technology

59211 readers
3499 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
291
This post knows where you're viewing it from (Lemmy doesn't proxy external images) [ARCHIVED] (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TriLinder@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 109 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This is possible because Lemmy doesn't proxy external images but instead loads them directly. While not all that bad, this could be used for Spy pixels by nefarious posters and commenters.

Note, that the only thing that I willingly log is the "hit count" visible in the image, and I have no intention to misuse the data.

load more comments (10 replies)