[Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 152a556: (gnus-blocked-images): Clarify privacy implications

[Eli Zaretskii]

branch: emacs-26
commit 152a5569c87332f6641b768c2b1eb0cabaada26a
Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

    (gnus-blocked-images): Clarify privacy implications
    
    * lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el (gnus-blocked-images): Clarify the privacy
    implication of altering the value of this variable.
    
    (cherry picked from commit f4d9fd3dd45f767eca33fbf1beee40da790fa74e)
---
 lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
index 79b2ade..15e88a3 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
@@ -1635,6 +1635,16 @@ It is a string, such as \"PGP\". If nil, ask user."
 
 (defcustom gnus-blocked-images 'gnus-block-private-groups
   "Images that have URLs matching this regexp will be blocked.
+Note that the main reason external images are included in HTML
+emails (these days) is to allow tracking whether you've read the
+email message or not.  If you allow loading images in HTML
+emails, you give up privacy.
+
+The default value of this variable blocks loading external
+resources when reading email groups (and therefore stops
+tracking), but allows loading external resources when reading
+from NNTP newsgroups and the like.
+
 This can also be a function to be evaluated.  If so, it will be
 called with the group name as the parameter, and should return a
 regexp."