TriLinder

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

Yup, I'm parsing the user agent with the user_agents Python library.

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

If you wanted to target a specific user, you could always send a DM with the image

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

Looks like your home instance hexbear.net is filtering external images.

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

Cool, didn't know some Lemmy instances did this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

 

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

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.

 

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

 

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

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 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.

 

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

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It appears to have worked

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