| phaz0rz | 02-24-2018 09:56 AM |
Re: accidentally put image on in gmail
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Originally Posted by tjacks305
(Post 903298)
Hello. thanks for your post. Question. I opened my new gmail account for my new stealth ebay and paypal account. I opened the gmail on my old ip address. I changed settings to ask before displaying external images. I clicked on an ebay email and images started loading. I quickly closed the email. I rechecked my settings and it showed I indeed checked ask before displaying external images. Why did this happen? Did I get linked by this? Thanks for your time
| No, you can't be linked that way. Like I said above, ALL images in Gmail messages are rehosted on Gmail servers. Regardless of what you do or click on, eBay will only see a Google IP because a Google proxy was the endpoint from eBay's point of view.
If Gmail (and other major email clients, I'm sure hotmail does it too) didn't do this, any random hacker could email you a message with an inline image which they've hosted themselves. As soon as you open the email and the image loads the hacker would have your IP address. | 
