This post knows where you're viewing it from (Lemmy doesn't proxy external images) [ARCHIVED] - eviltoast

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

  • sfgifz@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    It says unknown (mobile?) client for me too, using Sync with Bluetooth and location enabled and Play Store Services installed.

    Whoever wrote that image tracking over-hyped it?

    • TriLinder@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

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

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        It successfully identified Firefox when I checked it from the browser. Maybe some of the apps don’t identify themselves in the useragent string?