Ask HN: Open gmail, see image blocked.... hey wait

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6024330

by legion050 • 13 years ago

6 8 13 years ago

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Lastpass ticket confirmation, images blocked but they're not really... So how is this happening?

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6353/wqo.png

legion0502• 13 years ago

also, is this common? I haven't seen this until now.

t0• 13 years ago

Are they attachments?

legion0502• 13 years ago

Inline if so, I have no option to download or retrieve.

eranation• 13 years ago

I've seen it before, had the same question.

songgao• 13 years ago

I guess it's encoded (embedded) in the email body? The src is not pointing to any external resource. I

One of the purpose of blocking images is to prevent tracking by sender. Embedded images won't require a request to sender's server to display so there's no need to block it?

Zarel• 13 years ago

It looks like it's pointing to an attached image. If so, this is perfectly normal.

bigiain• 13 years ago

It's using a relative url for the image.

There is no image at https://mail.google.com/?ui=2&ik= …

My guess is that the blue shape and text are in the css somewhere.

veesahni• 13 years ago

Emails attachments can be used as inline images. If an attachment is being used as an image, gmail no longer shows it as an attachment.

In the linked email, there were attachments used as images (as shown) and possibly additional image tags which source remote images.

There's no harm in auto-loading inline images. However, remote images can be used for tracking.

Ask HN: Open gmail, see image blocked.... hey wait

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