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A gmail-using friend sent me an email. He attached an image. I would have expected to just, you know, see the image in the email I received. Instead, all there
by nonamegiven 14y ago
A gmail-using friend sent me an email. He attached an image. I would have expected to just, you know, see the image in the email I received.
Instead, all there was was a link which google helpfully put in place of the image itself in my friend's email. That link was to an image that my friend was "sharing". When I clicked on the link, I had to log in to my G+ account (which I virtually never use), and then get "permission" to view the document (image).
Am I counted as an active user? Given Google's incentives, I'm guessing yes.
Was the simple act of attaching an image hijacked for those same incentives? I'm guessing yes.
- myko 14y agoIt sounds like your friend put a link to an image (hosted on G+) in their email. Source: I just emailed an image from one Gmail account to the other and what you stated didn't happen.
- DominikR 14y agoHow is that different than getting an email from Facebook that some friend has shared a photo with you? You would have to login to Facebook to view that photo. (and would therefore be counted as an active Facebook user) Anyways, your friend never attached an image, he just send you a link. It wasn't Google that replaced that image with a link, it's your friend that chose to share that image using Google's services instead of manually attaching it to every email. And yes, I am pretty sure that you are counted as an active user after accessing Google+ while beeing logged in with a Google+ account.
- nonamegiven 14y agoPossible he sent me a link, but we discussed it, and he said he followed the same steps as he usually did when he'd attached images before. I didn't watch him.