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

6 pointsby legion050almost 12 years ago
Lastpass ticket confirmation, images blocked but they&#x27;re not really... So how is this happening?<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;img43.imageshack.us&#x2F;img43&#x2F;6353&#x2F;wqo.png

7 comments

songgaoalmost 12 years ago
I guess it&#x27;s encoded (embedded) in the email body? The src is not pointing to any external resource. I<p>One of the purpose of blocking images is to prevent tracking by sender. Embedded images won&#x27;t require a request to sender&#x27;s server to display so there&#x27;s no need to block it?
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veesahnialmost 12 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.<p>In the linked email, there were attachments used as images (as shown) and possibly additional image tags which source remote images.<p>There&#x27;s no harm in auto-loading inline images. However, remote images can be used for tracking.
bigiainalmost 12 years ago
It&#x27;s using a relative url for the image.<p>There is no image at <a href="https://mail.google.com/?ui=2&amp;ik=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mail.google.com&#x2F;?ui=2&amp;ik=</a> …<p>My guess is that the blue shape and text are in the css somewhere.
t0almost 12 years ago
Are they attachments?
legion050almost 12 years ago
Inline if so, I have no option to download or retrieve.
eranationalmost 12 years ago
I&#x27;ve seen it before, had the same question.
legion050almost 12 years ago
also, is this common? I haven&#x27;t seen this until now.