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Ask HN: Open gmail, see image blocked.... hey wait
Lastpass ticket confirmation, images blocked but they're not really... So how is this happening?
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6353/wqo.png
- legion050 13y agoalso, is this common? I haven't seen this until now.
- t0 13y agoAre they attachments?
- legion050 13y agoInline if so, I have no option to download or retrieve.
- eranation 13y agoI've seen it before, had the same question.
- songgao 13y agoI 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 13y agoIt looks like it's pointing to an attached image. If so, this is perfectly normal.
- bigiain 13y agoIt's using a relative url for the image. There is no image at https://mail.google.com/?ui=2&ik= https://mail.google.com/?ui=2&ik= … My guess is that the blue shape and text are in the css somewhere.
- veesahni 13y agoEmails 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.