Privacy@Lemmy.ml: Could websites and data brokers track you with your profile pictures?
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Privacy@Lemmy.ml: Could websites and data brokers track you with your profile pictures?

I only just thought of this. I have the same cartoon-y profile pic from a foreign TV show on a bunch of my accounts, I wonder if its unique enough and worth tracking.

Yes but I think most of them use absolutely the same transformation so the resulting image is the same. I really can be wrong though.

Nah they don’t. I uploaded the exact same pic to a bunch of different work profiles (slack, google, microsoft). I inspected them out of curiosity and they were all different sizes and resolutions.

Hmm then no need to worry about it I guess

You should still worry about it for manual association. I rarely use them outside work.

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