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Ummmm.... they already store all your e-mail. What difference does storing images make?
by runn1ng 13y ago
Ummmm.... they already store all your e-mail. What difference does storing images make?
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- shabble 13y agoBecause if you stop serving up the remote reference before it gets requested by a particular client, it won't be there. If it's archived {immediately,on first request} permanently thereafter, there's now another copy outwith your control. Edit: moreover, the images are requested locally by the user's browser. Google doesn't get a look at them at any point[1]. Whereas now, they get a permanent copy for free, because they're doing you such a favour! [1] Directly, anyway. I guess they could use js to get the requests and headers and submit them back to the mothership, but on slow connections that could be pretty obvious.
- runn1ng 13y agoyeah, OK, but again, it's not really an invasion of privacy bcause they get the mails and the URLs in the first place. If you don't want your e-mails read by google, you probably don't use GMail.