# Custom Local Avatars

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-local-avatars/9463>\
**Category:** Blog\
**Created:** [29. August 2013 um 18:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-local-avatars/9463 "2013-08-29T18:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [14. Juli 2015 um 02:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-local-avatars/9463/8 "2015-07-14T02:07:55Z")

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Keep in mind, our implementation of gravatar is very secure and private. Unlike the vast amount of implementations in the wild.

We cache all images on the server, users have to opt-in to update avatar from gravatar.

This means gravatar is not getting any information about browsing habits and other nasty analytics every 5 minutes.

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