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I stopped it now, just wanted to demonstrate that those counters need to be quite sophisticated to be anything close to reliable ^^
For sure! I was more trying to see if
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.
Welcome to the world of 1x1 tracking GIFs in emails
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 years ago
I stopped it now, just wanted to demonstrate that those counters need to be quite sophisticated to be anything close to reliable ^^
jcg@halubilo.social 3 years ago
For sure! I was more trying to see if
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 years 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.
JhonnyTheJeccer@lemmy.world 3 years ago
Welcome to the world of 1x1 tracking GIFs in emails