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GitHub's main stated benefit for the proxying was to prevent things like this Proxying these images will help protect your privacy: your browser informatio
by jffry 13y ago
GitHub's main stated benefit for the proxying was to prevent things like this
Proxying these images will help protect your privacy:
your browser information won't be leaked to other
third party services
Source: https://github.com/blog/1766-proxying-user-images https://github.com/blog/1766-proxying-user-images (linked from TFA)
- nilved 13y agoIf course, what it really means is: we want to monopolize your data.
- eps 13y agoNo, it actually doesn't mean that, because it's not "your" data to begin with. It's theirs.
- nilved 13y agoNo, I think the websites I visit is my data.
- dwightgunning 13y agomonetize?
- dictum 13y agoGitHub still leaks your browser information to Google (and some would argue, Automattic) unless you take steps to prevent this.