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Automattic Is Creepy

• pixodaros 4y ago
  It appears that the Automattic CDN does not just fetch and save files from sites without Wordpress or Jetpack, it fetches and saves them even if robots.txt says no crawlers.
• _garrett 4y ago
  Automattic is running a pull based CDN that would literally work on any URL. Hardly creepy https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/ https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/
  • pixodaros 4y ago
    "Literally work on amy URL" is right. As far as I can tell, if you give i0.wp.com/ i1.wp.com/ or i2.wp.com/ *any URL of a media file* those domains will happily scrape it, spread it around their CDN, and start serving it!
• thebadsleep 4y ago
  It's called "Image Accelerator" in the Dashboard > JetPack screen and can be toggled on and off.
  • pixodaros 4y ago
    As the OP says, the site in question does not have JetPack installed. And those Automattic domains will copy and serve any media file available at a URL if you call for it.