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

  • TriLinder@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    2 years 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.

  • TheGreatFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It got my OS right, but browser wrong. Tested both Librewolf and Vivaldi, which it sees as Firefox and Chrome.

    • L_Acacia@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      This is because librewolf reports itself as firefox for privacy, and vivaldi does the same thing with chrome. Their is no vivaldi string in their user agent.