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  • Jeena
    16•11 months ago

    I started a loop with:

    while /bin/true
do
    curl "https://counter.websiteout.net/compte.php\?S=someimagehostnameurl&C=22&D=0&N=0&M=0" >> /dev/null
done
      • Jeena
        8•11 months ago

        I stopped it now, just wanted to demonstrate that those counters need to be quite sophisticated to be anything close to reliable ^^

        • @[email protected]OP
          11•11 months ago

          For sure! I was more trying to see if it’d work at all. Apps seem to cache the image but the websites just load it. Theoretically this could be used to collect IP addresses 🤔

          • Jeena
            11•11 months ago

            Oh yeah, because Lemmy doesn’t cache pictures, instead just hot-links them, every time the page loads it loads the picture from the other server. This can be used for bad things too.

  • @[email protected]
    6•11 months ago

    I had intant old web flashbacks from that counter. Btw there is a project called the old web that maintains thousands of old websites. Not like the wayback machine, that has broken links. These guys are fixing all images and links, check it out