rushter

Github does not send any extra information.

    "GET /counter.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 565 "-" "github-camo (62249a1c)"

I've reverted the badge.

You can't view profile statistics right now. Personally, my intent was to demonstrate the concept. I don't have plans using it.

I've removed it because it does not display relevant information anymore (someone fetches ten times a second via wget).

I also don't have plans to use it in the future. I wanted to demonstrate the concept.

I agree, but I think such information should be available to all people. Some people will be doing this anyway, and they can hide this by using a transparent pixel.

I did some research before writing an article. GitHub started proxying images in 2014, and there are a lot of repositories that use this technique to keep their stats. I think GitHub is OK with that.