[openstreetmap-website] Gravatar support (#131)

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Wed Oct 17 14:49:49 GMT 2012


Just my view, but I wonder if there is a privacy issue with enabling Gravatar by default.

Even though the email is hashed with MD5 if I saw it correctly, it does allow Gravatar to track which email(hashes) use which sites (and uniquely identify them), which some might find problematic.

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