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

  • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.win
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    1 year ago

    None (by Lemmy), as Lemmy doesn’t actually request the image (that would be proxying). Your browser requests the image directly by URL. Lemmy, technically, doesn’t even know an image exists. It just provides the HTML and lets your browser do the work.

    • CoderKat@lemm.ee
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      Yup. And to add, your browser will send things like:

      1. Your IP address. Technically this is sent by the OS doing networking and is unavoidable. At best, a VPN can hide this, because the VPN sits in the middle.

      2. Various basic request headers, which most notably contains user agent (identifies browser) and language headers, both which you can fake if you want to.

      3. Cookies for that domain (if you have any). Those can track you across multiple requests and thus build up a profile of you.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. The text of this post is simply :

      ![An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"](https://trilinder.pythonanywhere.com/image.jpg)
      I get the same result when I browse directly to the link.

      So, if OP links a malcious website we have a problem … (?).

      • Goddard Guryon@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Oh dangit, it’s simpler than I thought. So the only data being sent is…just whatever is sent in your average GET request.

        • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
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          Yes. It’s also a pretty standard way of serving images. A lot of Email clients do that too.

          That’s also how these services that show you when a email is read work.