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  • andscape@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Can countermeasures be implemented in the clients to mitigate privacy risks, while not having to proxy images?

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      At it’s basic level it will capture your IP address, but it won’t really tie the IP to a user name, and there’s not a role lot you can do with it

      Attacks I can think of:

      • target advertising at users in a particular lemmy community
      • get a collection of IP addresses of people with specific problems or beliefs (indicated by membership in a lemmy community) to target with malware

      A VPN would protect you in this case, but you need to be a bit of a privacy nut to also protect yourself from things that identify for advertising right now

    • flathead@quex.cc
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      1 year ago

      no. the remote server will log the requests based on the client address. it is a good argument for using a vpn.