Gmail Starts Displaying Images Automatically For Contacts
Gmail's previous stance on images in emails was to hide them from the user initially because of two reasons. The first was that images in emails could be used by spammers to track if a user read an email or not if the email was embedded in the mail and not attached to it. The second reason was to prevent that inappropriate emails would be automatically displayed to the user. The user would be presented with a choice to display the images.
It usually does not make much sense to hide the images for some contacts of the user like family members, business partners or friends. That's why Google decided to change the way images are handled in Gmail slightly.
Gmail's previous stance on images in emails was to hide them from the user initially because of two reasons. The first was that images in emails could be used by spammers to track if a user read an email or not if the email was embedded in the mail and not attached to it. The second reason was to prevent that inappropriate emails would be automatically displayed to the user. The user would be presented with a choice to display the images.
It usually does not make much sense to hide the images for some contacts of the user like family members, business partners or friends. That's why Google decided to change the way images are handled in Gmail slightly.
