jeremy on Nostr: It's trivial to craft a custom tracking pixel and send to anyone as a DM. Most ...
It's trivial to craft a custom tracking pixel and send to anyone as a DM. Most clients today will fetch the image without a second thought. Damus will blur the image from anyone you don't follow--but it still fetches it.
Of course this shits happens elsewhere, too. This is why Gmail will proxy images for you, and gives you the option to disable automatic loading:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919Published at
2023-01-10 13:37:17Event JSON
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