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Mon 13 Jan 2014 9:29PM

Proxy images through pod

R Ryuno-Ki Public Seen by 92

Hello,
this is my first post on Loomio :)

On Geraspora, I've asked a question concerning proxying the images:
https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/1829784

For now, it's this way, that a user is probably sending a bunch of personal information (User Agent, resolution and so on) to every host of a hotlinked image.

In order to protect the users, I've thought, it might be clever to route the request through the pods server instead. This way, the third-party-server would only "see" the pod (IxQuick/StartPage shall work the same way).

Look, the point is, that advertisement industry is moving a way from a cookie-based approach to a browser-information-based. The headers provide enough details to almost identify an user.

I've searched the Loomio forums and found only one discussion before:
https://www.loomio.org/d/WthBGoV5/implement-support-for-camo-ssl-image-proxy

DU

rekado Mon 20 Jan 2014 11:06PM

If no alt text is provided the URL could be displayed. If a non-descriptive alt-text is given there's nothing that you can do about it.