love to see people post about why hotlinking is bad from instances with no media proxy.
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love to see people post about why hotlinking is bad from instances with no media proxy.
(this isn’t a dunk on instances with no media proxy. the media proxy is useful but a bit overrated if you have a good content-security-policy or equivalent).
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honestly hotlinking a <10kb file isn’t a big deal.
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The main issues with hotlinking are privacy, security, and bandwidth wastage.
On Fedi: a media proxy probably won’t save as much bandwidth as you think (it may do the opposite). A CSP is a better security mitigation but not all clients have a CSP or equivalent. Privacy…may actually be a legitimate concern.
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@Seirdy yeah...
Given I run a single user instance I don't bother with a media proxy because the anonymity set is me and the bandwidth reduction would be minuscule
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