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by danieljurek 4541 days ago
That would be a pretty awesome way to troll scrapers!

We've had Gmail image caching turned on for a while and these images just started showing up like this today... it seems like Photobucket/tinypic just swapped the images out from under us a couple hours ago. Brian has been sending emails with these images for at least a year.

Also, I feel slightly responsible for not enforcing good practices... never occurred to me to investigate how he was putting those images in his emails.

In other amusing news, I want to check this out without Google image caching... but first need to sign up for a non-google hosted email address since I forgot the password to my Yahoo mail account from all those years back.

Update:: I used a disposable email box that doesn't do Gmail image caching, we're getting the same results:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/arzmt2kcpqovrnd/Screenshot%202014-...