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Although I'm sure it's possible to fool their image hashing algorithm, I doubt this will. Image hashing algorithms are designed to be resistant to small change
by anatari 13y ago
Although I'm sure it's possible to fool their image hashing algorithm, I doubt this will. Image hashing algorithms are designed to be resistant to small changes in the image and more advanced ones can generate hashes that determine how similar one image is to another. I haven't tried this, but you can probably see a proof of this using google image search. Add some text to an image, and see if Google image search can find the original.
- webjprgm 13y agoProcedurally generated fractal backgrounds with random seed, that might work? Anyway, I think it would be perfectly fine if Google matched up emails with similar content and where there was one image that was unique for everybody just remove it, maybe with a note to the user in that case. Do NOT have a "click to load images" button. If users can't ever see them then it completely destroys spammers' ability to use them even for a rough sampling. I would love to see spam as an advertising method be completely destroyed. It won't be, because even without tracking it is still easy and useful to spam out lots of ads, but this would help.