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Googel Gmail now shows you all images by default
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Before the dark times of drive-by malware, attached images would
show in their e-mail. That practice went away as e-mail providers
stopped displaying attachments to cut down on spreading malware, but
Google has figured out a better solution: proxy servers for all.
The company revealed on Thursday that Gmail can maintain its current level of security while serving image attachments through Google's own proxy servers, instead of through the image's original host server.
What this means is that instead of seeing a box that asks you if you want to display an attached image, you'll see the image itself directly in your e-mail.
One of the consequences of the move is that it will cuts off a potential
way to de-anonymize Gmail accounts by following image attachments' IP
addresses.
People who still want to restrict images from being displayed can
re-enable that option in Gmail's settings, which could prove useful on
slow or rate-limited connections. However, that won't stop Gmail's image
attachments from being served by proxy.
Gmail image attachments read in desktop browsers received the proxy
server support on Thursday, while Gmail's mobile apps are expected to
support the proxy image servers in early 2014.Google declined to comment on a request for more specifics about the proxy servers.
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