I got a warning from my firewall my phone was accessing by a malware site. Odd, I’m just relaxing and scrolling through Lemmy on voyager.

Seems it’s been calling out to qu.ax which has a rather terrible reputation.

Does voyager keep a log of where it’s been calling out to?

  • Xylight@feddit.onlineEnglish
    10·
    16 days ago

    Most Lemmy instances do not proxy images. This means every little profile picture, every thumbnail, etc, are all downloaded from different servers. There’s very few privacy protections in clients either. It’s most likely you just scrolled past a page with a post that had that as a link.

    For example, <- this isn’t actually a real image, but your client will try and download it. And you’ve just sent your IP address and browser information to it.