TriLinder

joined 1 year ago
[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The user-agent detection definitely isn't great, this was just meant as a quick proof of concept for anyone curios.

[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thought about adding the user's location, but was worried PythonAnywhere could somehow cache the image between multiple people. A great demo though!

[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 199 points 1 year ago (23 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.

[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 108 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.

[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 31 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.

[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

It appears to have worked

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