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  • @sab@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Not a lot of information to sell from a single GET request when an image is embedded on a third party website or app.

    Edit: come to think of it, maybe you’re right, and this is in response to 3rd party cookies being phased out pretty much everywhere.

    • @varjen@lemmy.world
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      02 years ago

      And when they combine traffic from you with traffic from others they can infer more info.

      • @sab@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        To comply with GDPR, they’d need consent for that, and you can’t get consent through an <img /> tag, and I was never asked for consent before seeing a giphy in slack, for example.