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[โ€“] x4740N@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Now I'm wondering if someone in bad faith could link an tracking image and just rip ip addressees in the background

I guess it depends on if lemmy clients query the link to fetch fetch images or just grab a cached copy of the image from the lemmy instance

[โ€“] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Images in comments don't get cached, so absolutely yes. But I mean, public IP + User Agent is like minimum of information anyway. Any website you visit gets it.