Chris027 Posted November 4, 2022 Posted November 4, 2022 (edited) I just notices a 1x1 pixel gif being loaded on my site when I'm logged in. I'm not a fan of tracking and this reminds me of some type of tracking pixel. The pixel only loads on Pages articles and forum topics, not the main page or main forum pages. Does anyone have any idea what this is? Request URL: data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP8AAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw== Request Method: GET Status Code: 200 OK (from memory cache) Referrer Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin Content-Type: image/gif Provisional headers are shown. Disable cache to see full headers. Learn more Referer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edited November 4, 2022 by Chris027
Chris027 Posted November 4, 2022 Author Posted November 4, 2022 I'm happy to see the same gif being loaded here on the IPS site, but now I want to know what and why :~)
All Astronauts Posted November 4, 2022 Posted November 4, 2022 Sounds like the Facebook/Meta pixel fwiw. IPS does not track anything at this level in the suite. The most they do is some baseline information reported back like errors, apps/plugins installed, and settings (minus all the password/account number stuff). And all that stuff is voluntary - an ACP option you can toggle on/off..
Chris027 Posted November 4, 2022 Author Posted November 4, 2022 Just now, All Astronauts said: Sounds like the Facebook/Meta pixel fwiw. IPS does not track anything at this level in the suite. The most they do is some baseline information reported back like errors, apps/plugins installed, and settings (minus all the password/account number stuff). And all that stuff is voluntary - an ACP option you can toggle on/off.. It’s strange because I would never enable Facebook anything on my site, yet I have this pixel.
Solution All Astronauts Posted November 4, 2022 Solution Posted November 4, 2022 (edited) Actually looked. It's plupload, the underlying js library that powers the uploader for attachments. A nothing burger; probably just initializing. EDIT: Here's the bit in the code if you are curious: Quote use_data_uri: function() { var e = new Image; e.onload = function() { n.use_data_uri = e.width === 1 && e.height === 1 } ; setTimeout(function() { e.src = "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP8AAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" }, 1); return false }(), Edited November 4, 2022 by All Astronauts
Chris027 Posted November 4, 2022 Author Posted November 4, 2022 6 minutes ago, All Astronauts said: Actually looked. It's plupload, the underlying js library that powers the uploader for attachments. A nothing burger; probably just initializing. EDIT: Here's the bit in the code if you are curious: Thank you so much!
Gary Posted November 5, 2022 Posted November 5, 2022 Thanks for your help, @All Astronauts. Please let us know if you encounter any further issues, @Chris027.
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