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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If it’s showing you the title, then it visited the page already.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No, if they’re security conscious, then it may mean they only did a request that scanned the HTML for a tag. That means one WGET call, but a far cry from a standard definition of “visiting” in which your device’s JS parser starts running their unknown code and page instructions.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Sure, we can split hairs about the definition of “visiting” a site. But like your wget example, at the very least the server gets your ip address. Then possibly a user agent string. Maybe follows a redirect. Maybe cookies. A lot of that depends on how secure and privacy oriented the http client is. And all that can happen without rendering a full html DOM, or executing js code.

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