This post knows where you're viewing it from (Lemmy doesn't proxy external images) [ARCHIVED]

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

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This is true for most link aggregators that attempt to render external content. Proxying images and videos would dramatically increase costs.

If you care that much about anonymity, use a VPN/Tor and a browser with advanced fingerprinting resistance — tor browser, mullvad browser, or firefox with resist fingerprinting = true.

At the very least setting referer policy headers and such would be a good addition.

That's great except those browsers often don't work.

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