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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TriLinder@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] goddard_guryon@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh dangit, it's simpler than I thought. So the only data being sent is...just whatever is sent in your average GET request.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Yes. It's also a pretty standard way of serving images. A lot of Email clients do that too.

That's also how these services that show you when a email is read work.