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> it fetches the image from Wikimedia Commons but does not display it If I were to guess, they use the picture as a connectivity/speed test. They probably figu
by clawoo 6y ago
> it fetches the image from Wikimedia Commons but does not display it
If I were to guess, they use the picture as a connectivity/speed test. They probably figured Wikipedia has unlimited free bandwidth, so they didn't care.
- londons_explore 6y agoThe fact the picture has "1mb.jpg" in the file name suggests it is 1 megabyte and therefore a good candidate for use as a speed test. However the image is in fact 160 kilobytes, so I suspect whatever speedtest is being done is getting the wrong results...
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoCould be worse. Imagine if the original "1mb.jpg" was correctly linked, boom, 10x more traffic...