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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Finally. Someone noticed πŸ₯Ή

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah this is really cool. Though I was way off for me and I'm not on a VPN right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Location is right, but I highly doubt anyone near me is using Lemmy (dictatorship here).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My location is accurate, to give some good feedback on your program too lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have the code for this? Very interested in how you implemented it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate this so much. Its super cool but MAN what the hell. I don't think I'm going to ever turn off my VPN anymore. I'm in a super small town and that image is correct.

It's cached somewhere because I can't get it to update. Maybe time for a new account too. Hmmmm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey. I wanted to do this tomorrow.

Well I have a new idea which is pretty similar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm plannig to make one of these "dox'd memes" where someone says something controversial and another one answers with the ip address.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can run Geolocation with images now? What the heck? How?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not using a VPN or anything and it got my location wrong by 700 kilometers πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Are you sure you are where you think you are? When's the last time you looked outside?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joke's on you. IP geolocation where I am is an unreliable mess and your image got it wrong by about 1000km!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is possible because Lemmy doesn't proxy external images but instead loads them directly. While not all that bad, this could be used for Spy pixels by nefarious posters and commenters.

Note, that the only thing that I willingly log is the "hit count" visible in the image, and I have no intention to misuse the data.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

for a little extra creepiness, modify the image-generating script to add geoip location data and http referer to the image.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be damned. I tried this from three different platforms and you've nailed it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Firefox on Mac and it thought I was on windows. Still a big issue though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It said I'm on Mac OS X, but that's wrong. It's been macOS for some years now. /s

It still makes me wanna cry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • Mlem - knows exactly that it’s Mlem.
  • Memmy - sees Mobile Safari webkit.
  • Voyager - same as Memmy.
  • Thunder - just sees Mobile Client.
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't know it's sync.