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An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"

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[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Proxying external images means that instead of the image being downloaded from the original link, your Lemmy server would download it and serve it for you. The Lemmy server acts as a proxy.

But it means performing a lot of extra traffic. And realistically you'd want to cache the image because otherwise your server will likely get banned for the high volume of requests you send. But caching the images requires more storage and can have potential for legal issues.

And images are one thing, but literally any content is the problem. Images are just the most obvious because they often load without even having to click on the image and thus you'll get far higher volume of user data. Literally anything you link to has this issue and you cannot proxy all of it.

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