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And then you can cause Google to DDoS someone else's site by sending out spam containing lots of image URLs.
by jblow 13y ago
And then you can cause Google to DDoS someone else's site by sending out spam containing lots of image URLs.
- prostoalex 13y agoUsers would have to have previously agreed to "Always load images from domain.com"
- vidarh 13y agoThe cost of a new domain per e-mail campaign would be trivial. (and "normal users" do click the show images links)
- xur17 13y agoYou can somewhat do this with the current system. I had no problems sending an email with 10 10mb images. Google happily fetched all 10 of the images off my server. Not sure if they limit it at some point, but if a server accepts urls such as: http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg?2 http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg?2 etc... Google would fetch each separately. Send this out to a bunch of people, and it seems problematic. I'm going to be optimistic, and assume they built in some sort of limiting, but who knows.