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

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

      • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        That makes sense. But I guess there’s these questions: at what resolution? For how long? Maybe the status quo is such because it’s simpler code. The project is still relatively young. I wonder where/how we can discuss these things?

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        1 year ago

        It still adds up fast especially if you run an instance that stores to s3 with a cdn. My mastodon server racked up 1k in cdn usage one month before I switched to local storage no cdn.

    • veloxy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

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