oddities embedded in posts

[An OtherParticipant @another21905]

[An OtherParticipant @another21905]

In the last two or three weeks, whenever I open a post on the ME site which has a picture embedded in it, instead of a picture I get a "reCapture" page – not the picture – anyone else seen this?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

No, nay, never

MichaelG.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

possibly an image from one of the ‘free’ suppliers – not free as the price is the cost of your known IPaddress, browser signature (used to cross-match against other sightings) + interest – the reCapture is often used to check on this and also gain additional info as it forces a Java script enabled access to their site

[An OtherParticipant @another21905]

Thanks for that, Frances. I'm a bit puzzled by it, for several reasons. As you say, it does seem to be an 'image' – it is not an active reCapture (not possible to enter anything). I'm not too worried even by the 'normal' reCapture having things like my IP – from past experience, I have found out that anyone using my IP to locate me gets pointed to a city that is at least 200km from where I live. I'm more concerned that it may be some kind of 'phishing' attempt.

I also wonder how it is being inserted into the post – assuming the intended picture in the post is saved somewhere in an album on a server belonging to (or used by) this site, then I would guess that if someone references a picture from their album in their post, then presumably local (site) software recovers the appropriate picture and displays it – which raises the question how is the reCapture being inserted instead?

Regards.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

I've not noticed anything like that, yet! A link to an example would help, as it would reveal where it's coming from.

Frances' suggestion gets my vote, but I suppose it's possible A N Other used a Free Hosting site that's installed a 'helper' which thinks he's wants to upload a photo to the forum. And misfires because the forum doesn't support that way of uploading images.

Dave

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Never had that (yet?).

Might just be worth running a full security/AV scan on your computer anyway, if you haven’t already done that.

Edited By V8Eng on 04/02/2023 09:49:28

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Not had it either, can you post a screen shot.

By way of experiment what do you see below, should be two photos, the first hosted here in an album the other from my Photobucket account

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Yes two photos, but with different brightness, the second one is paler.

Bill

[An OtherParticipant @another21905]

Sorry about the delay responding – been busy.

I'm not using a 'free hosting' site (whatever that is) – just the ME URL on Firefox in Linux Mint 21.2.

It also doesn't happen every time. I can open the site in my browser, select and open one or other of the threads that interests me. On several occasions I noticed a post with this "reCapture" in it – it looks like an image of the thing, because nothing happens when I click on it. I realised that a picture should be there because of the post content. It also doesn't seem to be 'reproducible' in that if I close the thread, then re-open it, the correct picture will appear.

I can see both your pictures OK Jason (this time) – but one looks a bit "older" than the other, as commented by Bill above. (Wish you could still get steam engine kits for 16/- those were the days!)

I will try and post a screen shot if it comes up again – very odd, I think.

Thanks for the efforts to help, and regards.

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