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These two statements of yours seem at odds with each other: "The privacy and security protections are about preventing other information (like ip, browser head
by cloudwalking 13y ago
These two statements of yours seem at odds with each other:
"The privacy and security protections are about preventing other information (like ip, browser headers, cookies) from leaking, rather than read notifications."
"If you care about maintaining your privacy, I would recommend disabling the new functionality."
- necubi 13y ago"Disabling the new functionality" refers to maintaing the old behavior of hiding images by default. This means that you're leaking nothing unless you explicitly decide to. This does not appear to disable the proxying, though, so you're still covered by these additional protections when you do explicitly show images.
- ben0x539 13y agoThe options are "Display images via this proxy mode that still leaks some privacy" and "don't display images. 100% privacy".
- nchuhoai 13y agoWhat he meant is to disable the new functionality and revert to the default blocking of any images, which is definitely the most privacy-preserving option. The new functionality seems to by default enable read notifications as Google seems to load all images by default. Unless that's false. Then it should have no impact on privacy.
- signed0 13y agoWhen I just tried disabling it, the images that were displayed after I clicked 'Display Images Below' all still went through the proxy.