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by englehardt 3183 days ago
We found that Apple Mail clients typically load remote resources by default, unless the message is spam. That content can't set or retrieve cookies, which is an improvement over other standalone clients.

I'd still recommend disabling remote content by default since the tracking identifiers (the hash of your email address, etc) are present in the image URL. That's enough to continue to track the read and serve targeted content. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20170922213846/https://support.l...