It appears to have worked

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thought about adding the user’s location, but was worried PythonAnywhere could somehow cache the image between multiple people. A great demo though!

The user-agent detection definitely isn’t great, this was just meant as a quick proof of concept for anyone curios.

The user-agent detection definitely isn’t great. If it doesn’t recognize a client, it just says unknown. But that wasn’t the main point of the post anyway, this was just meant as a quick proof of concept for anyone curious.

You could also send the image through a DM if you want to find a particular user

Yeah, I just use whatever the user_agents Python library gives me as user_agent.os.family.