I run a pretty locked down Firefox browser and I noticed when browsing lemmy.world that the browser wants to pull stuff from a long list of other instances, which fails because they aren’t trusted. Is this normal? I thought an instance would collect the things you are subscribed to and store them locally so that you didn’t have to go talk to 20 different servers. Not true?

  • th4English
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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely not only static content tho, I block third party scripts with uBO and it shows other instances domains in the blocked list.

    Edit: I was mistaken, it’s just images

    • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.pageEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Interesting, I dug through my networks requests with ublock off and I don’t see any remote scripts. Only requests to media.kbin and lemmy/pictrs locations on various instances. Any idea which pages you’re seeing that on?

      • th4English
        3·
        1 year ago

        Well I was wrong, I checked my network panel and it’s definitely just thumbnails that it’s fetching, I’m dumb I thought that only domains that served scripts ended up in the uBO matrix panel, I did a test and it does that with any third party content instead, static or not :p