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Re:How to think about HTML responsive images by falcor84 on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @08:38AM (#39978762)
I'm not sure, but my understanding was that this is to reduce browser fingerprinting.
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Re:How to think about HTML responsive images by csnover on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @12:28PM (#39981100)
This doesn’t make sense to me. You can perform the exact same fingerprinting by looking at which image in a srcset is being requested.
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