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by worksonmine 930 days ago
If your e-mail client loads external images it was already confirmed on open without clicking any link.
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crote 930 days ago
Are people still using that for tracking? I thought it was made pretty pointless by the large cloud providers simply prefetching and proxying it through their servers, and independent mail clients only loading them on-demand.
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justinclift 930 days ago
Ewww, why would anyone have their client configured to do that? That would be truly idiotic.

Personally, my email is text only. It drops all HTML. I prefer it this way. :)

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8organicbits 930 days ago
Most clients are configured this way by default. I change it every time I switch.
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freedomben 930 days ago
Nearly everyone has their client configured to do that, because it is the default setting. Gmail makes that very easy to change, but many other clients have it buried in the menu
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account42 930 days ago
None of the E-mail clients I use load external images by default and I haven't had to configure that behavior myself.
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