Avatars without proxies leak our IP addresses to the image hosts. None please.

There should really be an option to browse clients without connecting to rando 3rd party servers. If proxy scripts are too much, I'd rather turn off images (or click to reveal). An image from another host is as bad as a javascript tag from another host.

I can post an image or avatar right now from my own server (like BTCapsule did here) and watch my `access_log` for all of your IP addresses, as you read this post.

Antivirus also goes nuts on Iris and Hamstr whenever I get a compromised website behind embedded images, esp. from void(dot)cat.

Images are more important, but one notification displayed per event that repeats would stop people or bots making our notification feeds look like: