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jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

while /bin/true
do
    curl https://counter.websiteout.net/compte.php\?S\=someimagehostnameurl\&C\=22\&D\=0\&N\=0\&M\=0 >> /dev/null
done

• jcg@halubilo.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Insane

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  • jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I stopped it now, just wanted to demonstrate that those counters need to be quite sophisticated to be anything close to reliable ^^

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    • jcg@halubilo.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For sure! I was more trying to see if

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      • jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, because Lemmy doesn’t cache pictures, instead just hot-links them, every time the page loads it loads the picture from the other server. This can be used for bad things too.

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      • JhonnyTheJeccer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Welcome to the world of 1x1 tracking GIFs in emails

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