Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · edit-21 year agoWelp, guess I'm going to hellloot.buckodr.inkimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1491 cross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1491imageWelp, guess I'm going to hellloot.buckodr.inkXusontha@ls.buckodr.ink to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · edit-21 year agomessage-square48fedilink cross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
minus-squarex4740N@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoNow 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
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoImages 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.
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
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.