Made a meme one that took 3 minutes to program, 5 minutes to find a good offline GeoIP location source for, 10 minutes to come up with a design for, and half an hour to make sure nothing got logged by the web server.
Finally. Someone noticed 🥹
Location is right, but I highly doubt anyone near me is using Lemmy (dictatorship here).
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I’m not using a VPN or anything and it got my location wrong by 700 kilometers 🤔
Are you sure you are where you think you are? When’s the last time you looked outside?
This is possible because Lemmy doesn’t proxy external images but instead loads them directly. While not all that bad, this could be used for Spy pixels by nefarious posters and commenters.
Note, that the only thing that I willingly log is the “hit count” visible in the image, and I have no intention to misuse the data.
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I’ll be damned. I tried this from three different platforms and you’ve nailed it.
I’m using Firefox on Mac and it thought I was on windows. Still a big issue though.
It said I’m on Mac OS X, but that’s wrong. It’s been macOS for some years now. /s
It still makes me wanna cry.
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