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Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track ever (mastodon.social)
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[-] chamomile@furry.engineer 7 points 11 months ago

@DrDystopia @Blaze It's a common pattern in email. Disappointing that we still have this problem, tbh.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy/_pixel

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 6 points 11 months ago

Sure, that's why reasonable email clients don't run HTML code when opening an email.

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