I Think

Since I put System Mechanic on my computer, all avatars have vanished from a2k, including mine. Went to my profile and tried to reload my avatar, but the avatar site does not display my images and when I try to upload new ones, it goes through the motions, but no images appear. I don't really care at this point. I am sure it's part of their "leaner meaner" machine efforts.

edgarblythe wrote:

Since I put System Mechanic on my computer, all avatars have vanished from a2k, including mine. Went to my profile and tried to reload my avatar, but the avatar site does not display my images and when I try to upload new ones, it goes through the motions, but no images appear. I don't really care at this point. I am sure it's part of their "leaner meaner" machine efforts.

Do you see images on any other sites? If not, my guess is that your System Mechanic thing turned off the display of graphics for some reason. I don't know how to navigate you to where to check for it in Windows 8. If it were XP, I would look in your browser preference settings by going to Control Panel and clicking on the Internet Options icon.

I suspect this is the problem since it seems to be blocking all images from the Gravatar site but allowing images from other sites and on other sites.

If you do see images on other sites, I would check the System Mechanic settings regarding Security or Privacy to see if they are blocking graphics/images for specific sites such as Gravatar.

From cNet:

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Wonderful execution: Ghostery notified us about dozens of trackers during our tests and let us select which to block. Images and links that we blocked immediately ceased working. We were impressed that stopping a tracker on one website blocked it for all websites.

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Breaks formatting: Ghostery blocks widgets and links perfectly, but this sometimes results in websites becoming "broken" or not viewable. We had to test every blocked tracker individually to see what caused this problem, which consumes more time than necessary.

This tells me that there is a method to specify which sites to block and unblock tracking.

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Bottom Line
Ghostery for Chrome provides you with high-quality service for free. You get full control over which content to block, which is a great way to protect your privacy. Disconnect, a similar application, shows how much bandwidth has been consumed or saved by using the program, and we would enjoy seeing Ghostery include an option like this in the future. If you are concerned about privacy and security, we suggest downloading Ghostery.

http://download.cnet.com/Ghostery-for-Chrome/3000-33362_4-75182225.html