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• hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  From the URL alone, pictrs might be referring to https://lib.rs/crates/pict-rs. I’ve seen talk about pict-rs being used as the image backend in Lemmy as found here. When I inspect the thumbnails of posts on lemmy.sdf.org the URLs are in a similar format. I think its picking up links to images on other instances.

  I checked my logger and got a red hit for https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3b51f06d-2714-4fac-8a90-79f5f1397c7d.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96 and while it looks concerning, the column with the rule says /^https?:\/\/[0-9a-z]{5,}\.(digital|website|life|guru|space)\/[a-z0-9]{6,}\//$xhr,3p,from=~127.0.0.1|~bitrix24.life|~ccc.ac|~jacksonchen666.com|~lemmy.world|~localhost|~mempool.space|~scribble.ninja|~scribble.website|~spacepub.space|~traineast.co.uk so it was just a pattern match on a bunch of domain TLDs commonly used for scams or ads. With the recent increase in Lemmy’s popularity, server owners are buying up cheap domains that fall within those TLDs and you’re likely to be seeing one of those.

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  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for the detailed explanation!

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• vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Could it be one of the communities has dodgy posts that link off to sites ublock doesn’t like?

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  • wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, you’re making an assertion that you cannot validate or prove.

    Next time, try asking a question first if you are uncertain about something instead of leading with a statement that could be calumnious.

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    • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What? Me? I did ask I question. You replied to it :P

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      • wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Actually you made a claim without any explanatory information, and people (such as I) were seeking clarification.

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