Base64 Encoding

I noticed  that Google News web page  was still  loading images although I had disabled images, blocked them with AdBlocker Plus, a FireFox addon and disabled Javascript. Curious. I looked around a bit and found that Google News  was embeddingv Base64 encoded JPG images in the HTML using the  img src=“data:image/jpeg;base64, tag.

Now thats clever. Im surprised that some advertising company has not started using such techniques more often to get past popup blockers and disabling scripting.

*Note: FireFox does have a nifty little add on to encode images into Base64 Encoder 1.3.2  here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5611

I wonder if  WordPress allows Base64 encoded  images….