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  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
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    1 year 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
    
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        1 year ago

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

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          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 🤔

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    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