Problem is that a core part of the content of many emails is the images. Many emails I get are useless without them, I get the subject to guess what it's about,

Problem is that a core part of the content of many emails is the images. Many emails I get are useless without them, I get the subject to guess what it's about, and if I only have the text to go on it becomes a mystery. I get emails from Nintendo or Steam when a game in my wishlist goes on sale. I think they just show an image of the game in question. Maybe the game name is in the raw source, but it is equally likely the only thing I'd find in there is some internal game ID that means nothing to me. The way to solve it is for the email provider to download the images for you, not when you open the email, but as soon as they receive it, and then display the images from their local cache. That way your IP never hits the pixel's home server, and you can see the email as it was intended to be seen.