{"id":9369,"date":"2022-03-06T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2022-03-06T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T19:13:55","slug":"a-little-more-proof-against-spam-ask-before-displaying-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/06\/a-little-more-proof-against-spam-ask-before-displaying-images\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little More Proof Against Spam &#8211; Ask before displaying images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for Gmail users. I use this to get a little more proof against spam. Turn on &#8220;Ask before displaying images&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask-300x147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask-600x294.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask-120x59.png 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask-768x377.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask-1536x754.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask-50x25.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ask.png 1573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/landsend.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/landsend-300x61.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/landsend-300x61.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/landsend-600x122.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/landsend-120x24.png 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/landsend-768x156.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/landsend-50x10.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/landsend.png 1027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWith it turned on, when you get an email from someone new, Gmail will ask if you want to view images from them. I find this to be a nice, little reminder to be alert against spam. For instance, when I get an email from my bank but the images aren&#8217;t being displayed, it&#8217;s probably because it&#8217;s not actually from my bank!<\/p>\n<p>This also might decrease the spam you get in the future since spammers make a note of when people look at images in their emails as a sign that they are active email accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for Gmail users. I use this to get a little more proof against spam. Turn on &#8220;Ask before displaying images&#8221;. With it turned on, when you get an email from someone new, Gmail will ask if you want to view images from them. I find this to be a nice, little reminder to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}