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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I already fixed it, but I didn't know that! That's really cool!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can also embed images inside links, by the way (click the button):
Get Firefox

[![Get Firefox](https://i.imgur.com/KpmYhB1.gif)](https://getfirefox.com)

Also if say you have image/animation/audio/video link without extension (e.g.: .jpg), you can fool Lemmy using a fragment identifier at the end of URL #.jpg which would usually be used to jump to the fragment id in document. e.g.: https://example.org/image#.jpg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wowzers that's fancy, I'll have to save that for the future

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Now I'm wondering if someone in bad faith could link an tracking image and just rip ip addressees in the background

I guess it depends on if lemmy clients query the link to fetch fetch images or just grab a cached copy of the image from the lemmy instance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Images in comments don't get cached, so absolutely yes. But I mean, public IP + User Agent is like minimum of information anyway. Any website you visit gets it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, my bad. And thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No worries, I find the intricacies of protocols like this super interesting 😊