This post has been seen times!

  • Jeena
    link
    fedilink
    14
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    I started a loop with:

    while /bin/true
    do
        curl "https://counter.websiteout.net/compte.php\?S=someimagehostnameurl&C=22&D=0&N=0&M=0" >> /dev/null
    done
    
    • @jcgOPA
      link
      511 months ago

      Insane

      • Jeena
        link
        fedilink
        611 months ago

        I stopped it now, just wanted to demonstrate that those counters need to be quite sophisticated to be anything close to reliable ^^

        • @jcgOPA
          link
          9
          edit-2
          11 months ago

          For sure! I was more trying to see if it’d work at all. Apps seem to cache the image but the websites just load it. Theoretically this could be used to collect IP addresses 🤔

          • Jeena
            link
            fedilink
            811 months ago

            Oh yeah, because Lemmy doesn’t cache pictures, instead just hot-links them, every time the page loads it loads the picture from the other server. This can be used for bad things too.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    511 months ago

    I had intant old web flashbacks from that counter. Btw there is a project called the old web that maintains thousands of old websites. Not like the wayback machine, that has broken links. These guys are fixing all images and links, check it out

    • @jcgOPA
      link
      311 months ago

      Now you can have one on your neocities.org page! They’re bringing it back!