TriLinder

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The user-agent detection definitely isn’t great. If it doesn't recognize a client, it just says unknown. But that wasn't the main point of the post anyway, this was just meant as a quick proof of concept for anyone curious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 198 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've also started working on my own Lemmy app (in NativeScript). Maybe we should all create a community to share insights.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

It appears to have worked

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