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GitHub's main stated benefit for the proxying was to prevent things like this

  Proxying these images will help protect your privacy:
  your browser information won't be leaked to other
  third party services
Source: https://github.com/blog/1766-proxying-user-images (linked from TFA)



GitHub still leaks your browser information to Google (and some would argue, Automattic) unless you take steps to prevent this.


If course, what it really means is: we want to monopolize your data.


No, it actually doesn't mean that, because it's not "your" data to begin with. It's theirs.


No, I think the websites I visit is my data.


monetize?




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