It's a small image usually with a url specific to the recipient. The distributor usually monitors when the image is downloaded from their server and what IP address is requesting it.
The most common case is for companies to monitor if/when certain email addresses open an email. This is why email providers often make you hit the "load images" or "always load images from this sender" button before it loads images.
I honestly think chapo should have its own image hosting. I think it's a pretty big vulnerability for malicious actors to track users here.
I honestly think chapo should have its own image hosting.
It already does for posts, mind you. Also, you can start an image post, upload your image, never submit the post, and then the image is hosted on Chapo's servers and you can link it; though that's a side effect of the way the form works and I imagine any image not actually linked to an actual post will eventually get wiped by a crontab or similar.
It's a small image usually with a url specific to the recipient. The distributor usually monitors when the image is downloaded from their server and what IP address is requesting it.
The most common case is for companies to monitor if/when certain email addresses open an email. This is why email providers often make you hit the "load images" or "always load images from this sender" button before it loads images.
I honestly think chapo should have its own image hosting. I think it's a pretty big vulnerability for malicious actors to track users here.
It already does for posts, mind you. Also, you can start an image post, upload your image, never submit the post, and then the image is hosted on Chapo's servers and you can link it; though that's a side effect of the way the form works and I imagine any image not actually linked to an actual post will eventually get wiped by a crontab or similar.