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

  • @psud@aussie.zone
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    21 year ago

    At it’s basic level it will capture your IP address, but it won’t really tie the IP to a user name, and there’s not a role lot you can do with it

    Attacks I can think of:

    • target advertising at users in a particular lemmy community
    • get a collection of IP addresses of people with specific problems or beliefs (indicated by membership in a lemmy community) to target with malware

    A VPN would protect you in this case, but you need to be a bit of a privacy nut to also protect yourself from things that identify for advertising right now

    • @TriLinder@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      If you wanted to target a specific user, you could always send a DM with the image

      • @psud@aussie.zone
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        11 year ago

        You could also correlate time of your log entry to order of comments sorted by new, with errors from the few clients that don’t load images