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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by TriLinder@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] skymtf@pricefield.org 8 points 1 year ago

I feel like there isn't a real way to fix this, since lemmy isn't a single service, like I can choose any image host I want. The only way I could think of would be to have your instance download the images but that's currently not even support on the mastodon alike platforms even. The only thing you can do on Mastodon that I'm aware of is cache the images on your own server which could get costly