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"Tracking Lemmy users by spy/tracker pixels"
(raddle.me)
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Depending how the user made the post, this is/was equally true on Reddit. It is a function of the post linking to the image in it's original location ...but this is no worse than browsing images/data in any other way; you always give away some data (like your IP address) when you browse.