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Google will soon add images to email by default..
 

I just saw this @ The Verge if you are interested.

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Seems the are rehosting the images. Which is great...

Gmail will soon display images in your email by default | The Verge

Gmail kills the need to click “display images below”
 

Everyone , please be careful..
Since 12 hours from now , gmail has done this change.

Details can be found out here.

Gmail kills the need to click "display images below" - Liliputing

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I am just going through the article.
We shouldn't be worried coz it says
"Now instead of serving images directly from external servers, Google will filter everything through its own secure proxy servers. That means every time you view an image in Gmail from now on, it’ll be hosted by Google which means your data won’t go to third parties and you won’t accidentally load any code from remote sites. ."

:D

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Still anyone who doesn't want to take risk can disable the image display content by doing the following..
"If you’d like to disable images, you can go into your Gmail settings and select the option to “ask before displaying external content.”"

Follow this link
"https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?p=display_images&rd=1"

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Hi sagkash2,
you made this thread all by yourself ;-)
Thank You for the infos.

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Recommendation has always been to disable images and beacons - good update though sagkash2

Re: Google will soon add images to email by default..
 

Thanks Aspkin I didn't know how to put the link in.

Please explain your statement because I don't understand?

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You will just have to ensure that 'per-message authorization' setting is active in gmail

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Lol indeed , its because , I kept updating as I was reading.

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"If for some reason you preferred the old way, Gmail will still offer an option for per-message authorization inside settings."

Don't worry.

Re: Gmail kills the need to click “display images below”
 

"If for some reason you preferred the old way, Gmail will still offer an option for per-message authorization inside settings."

Don't worry.

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Yeah, I was prompted when I logged in earlier and just changed the settings to disallow it. It's simple enough.

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Thank you sagkash2 very nice. I don't understand when you say, "anyone who doesn't want to take a risk."? I don't see any risk if they are not sharing information?

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Its because , some people take extra precaution , they do not want to risk at all though thats not gonna happen.
For such people I said , if anyone doesnt wana risk , change the gmail settings.

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I use thunderbird and I forward all my emails to one gmail account which has filters enabled to different folders for each account. I have disabled all images and links, so even if i accidentally click on something, it does nothing! :)

New Gmail Image Changes
 

Not sure if this effects us, but I wanted to give you guys a HU.

New Gmail image server proxies raise security risks | Security & Privacy - CNET News

Can someone clarify if this is bad?

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It prompts you when this happens, so you go to "settings" and uncheck the option.

Happened on a few accounts already.

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Couple of posts already touching on this.

Just have to make sure the setting are the way you want them.

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Be really careful until they get this completed.

Seems they are toying with changes as usual.

Google has become a mess in my opinion. Too much info sucking coming out of gmail anymore.

Now popups asking if you use for personal, business etc.

Re: Google will soon add images to email by default..
 

I just slipped up, I read this thread recently but didnt notice it was by default.

Some images popped up in my face, I thought to myself "There's no way I changed the settings"

It's funny how Google says "Your emails are now safer, images will automatically appear in your emails"

Safe, my as*!

Google are doing lots of dodgy stuff these days, prompting you for phone numbers all the time, alternate email addresses, being automatically signed in to Chrome and Youtube when logged into your gmail account, multiple account log in

All in the name of security and convenience

Yeah sure.

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After you change the settings to not display images, make sure you log out and log back in, for the changes to take effect.

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Just be careful sagkash2 - double check what you do as you take more time to avoid links

Google is enabling all external images by default? any thoughts?
 

I just noticed this a couple of days ago. Google is now enabling all images by default. If we do not want to load images for a particular sender, we can do it only after opening the email, which means that that the images have already loaded. Will this be a problem and link accounts?

This is what I read on the Google blog:
"...thanks to new improvements in how Gmail handles images, you’ll soon see all images displayed in your messages automatically across desktop, iOS and Android. Instead of serving images directly from their original external host servers, Gmail will now serve all images through Google’s own secure proxy servers. "

I have many ebay and paypal accounts (which I access from different operating systems and different IPs), just wondering if the images will be a problem...

Any thoughts on this?

:confused:

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Technically speaking and according to google this should not be an issue because they load the images on their servers first meaning any IP tracking or web beacons lose any effectiveness.
That being said - I do not trust google, ebay, paypal or any of these corporations to keep their word on anything like this so I just went into settings and clicked on the option to return things to the way they were - i.e. images NOT being displayed automatically. You do have that option. I would highly recommend using it.

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I wonder whether this link from Lifehacker is relevant?

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This is kind of interesting. Think about it?
"Google already has a huge amount of information on each of us along with search history, social media history and even what videos we are interested in so I am not overly concerned about the privacy of Gmail pictures."

Mind blowing the new technology. Just got a text from Amazon that my pkg. was delivered. I don't remember giving them my telephone #, really?

Re: Google is enabling all external images by default? any thoughts?
 

The thing with that option is that even though I enabled it, images from senders already in my "inbox" are being displayed and the only way to disable them is by opening the email and selecting "do not display images from this sender..." That was my concern...

Anyway, technically, it shouldn't be a problem since Google claims that they are storing the images on their servers first. Although, as you mentioned, we can't really trust Google either.

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An interesting movie regarding not trusting google etc. is:

Terms And Conditions May Apply


Director:

Cullen Hoback


Cast:

Max Schrem, Moby, Mark Zuckerberg
Production Co: Hyrax Films, Topiary Productions
Genres: Documentary | News

Runtime: 79 min
Country: United States
Release Date: 2013

Re: Gmail kills the need to click “display images below”
 

Hi
Could you please give instructions on how to disable links - I have clumbsy fingers & have had a few close calls :( :doh:

thank you

Re: Google will soon add images to email by default..
 

did anyone get linked when this happened? I didnt know google started automatically enabling this option. Accidently viewed an email but didnt click on the images, am i toast?

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Well I haven't noticed yet, but could have been. Maybe someone has instances where this has directly led to problems

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hopefully im fine, waiting to hear from others.. hopefully just loading the images doesnt do anything.. i know google supposedly uploads the images into their servers now but idk...

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WTF! WOW why the h3ll do they always complicated sh*t for people! WHY!? GMFDI!!!

ANYWAYS!!!!

You guys should do what I been doing for 18++ months.

I USE THUNDERBIRD! And it will never display any images unless you click "show remote content"

Thank me later!
http://i60.tinypic.com/2mhar1l.jpg

P.S. for you with the questions. I got like 48 or 49 Gmail's attached to this program and works fine. Did I mention it's FREE? :)

+ it lets me know what account to log in every time I get an order or question by customers. :) It's simple and easy. Outlook costs money and is slow if you ask me! I JUST NEVER REPLY USING IT. DON'T BE LAZY JUST GO INTO STEALTH MODE TO REPLY TO CUSTOMERS!

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here is what i do for Evey ebay and paypal using the gmail app on the android phones.

1. open your gamil app

2 go to the main page were all your gmail acc are on i have about 10 gmail acc

3. clikc on settings

4. you have to do this for every one of your ebay or paypal acc.

5. click on the acc you want to disable images and download attachments.

6. look for a word called images click on it and select the one that say (ask be for showing images.)

7. you will see another another word called (Download Attachments. uncheck the box. )

8. rember you have to do these for all your ebay and paypal acc if you have 10 acc like me you have to do this 10 time. there is no one click fix for all your acc. you need to do them one by one.

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To me Google has allot of employees doing nothing, so they come up with these grand ideas that add up to more problems serving no purpose.
Allot of things I used to search for are gone from their search methods over the years. Less and less for no good reason.