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Title: Image proxy in post's content, why? it's slow and many images don't show up Post by: StelioKontos on January 11, 2018, 11:21:49 AM Hello, I was just wondering why the images embedded in post's content use this strange proxy:
example: Quote https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FwqZiYCu.jpg&t=584&c=5x4CBOEy0MYIdg I think: - it slows down the server (if the same of the php script running the forum) - I don't see any apparent technical reason why it's used - it fails at showing the image 90% of the times Wouldn't be better to simply show the original image with source: Quote https://i.imgur.com/wqZiYCu.jpg Taken from my example above? Title: Re: Image proxy in post's content, why? it's slow and many images don't show up Post by: TheQuin on March 25, 2018, 07:07:37 AM It seems nobody answered your question yet. The reason is for privacy. As it is likely that most people using this forum own some Bitcoin posting an image would be a good way to harvest IP addresses if a proxy wasn't used.
As to the reason for the slow loading and/or failure to load I don't know what causes that but I really only recall it starting to be a problem after the time of the switch to CloudFlare. That might just be a coincidence though. Title: Re: Image proxy in post's content, why? it's slow and many images don't show up Post by: LoyceV on March 25, 2018, 07:30:40 AM It seems nobody answered your question yet. The reason is for privacy. As it is likely that most people using this forum own some Bitcoin posting an image would be a good way to harvest IP addresses if a proxy wasn't used. The image proxy was implemented after someone put tracking pixels (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=341146.0) in his post.- it fails at showing the image 90% of the times In my experience images load most of the time, but it can take a while. I have proposed to set Alt-text by default for all embedded images (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2967890.0), but you can already do that manual (click Shift-Reload to see it):https://bitcoin.org/img/icons/logotop.svg |
