Secure? Google Mail Getting Increasingly Less Private
Thursday, December 19th, 2013In the news this week: Gmail is trying to make its web interface faster and a little safer … but are they trading away some of your privacy in the process and making Gmail addresses better targets for email marketers?
What is Google Doing?
Instead of waiting for you to click a “show images” button on every message that is displayed, Google is pre-loading all the images on their servers, scanning for viruses, and then displaying them automatically inline. You can turn this off in your Settings.
On this surface, this gives you:
- Images right away — fewer clicks
- Safer images — they have been scanned for viruses and malware
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