{"id":195978,"date":"2017-01-26T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T06:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=195978"},"modified":"2017-01-26T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T06:33:47","slug":"gmail-to-block-more-file-attachments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/195978-gmail-to-block-more-file-attachments.html","title":{"rendered":"Gmail to block more file attachments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s G Suite team <a href=\"https:\/\/gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com\/2017\/01\/gmail-will-restrict-js-file-attachments.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>has announced<\/strong><\/a> that from 13 February,\u00a0.js file attachments (JavaScript) will be blocked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gmail currently restricts certain file attachments (.exe, .msc, and .bat) for security reasons,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not allow .js file attachments as well. Similar to other restricted file attachments, you will not be able to attach a .js file and an in-product warning will appear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you still need to send .js files for legitimate reasons, you can use Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, or other storage solutions to share or send your files.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Gmail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195986\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Gmail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Gmail.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Gmail-600x343.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/195964-google-nailed-1-7-billion-bad-ads-last-year.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google nailed 1.7 billion bad ads last year<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s G Suite team has announced that from 13 February, .js file attachments will be blocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[407,167,32378],"class_list":["post-195978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-javascript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195984,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195978\/revisions\/195984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}