For sure! I was more trying to see if it'd work at all. Apps seem to cache the image but the websites just load it. Theoretically this could be used to collect IP addresses 🤔
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
For sure! I was more trying to see if it'd work at all. Apps seem to cache the image but the websites just load it. Theoretically this could be used to collect IP addresses 🤔
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