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(1) happens in relatively few email clients. Every major client loads images by default except Thunderbird and it is not common.
by eli 6y ago
(1) happens in relatively few email clients. Every major client loads images by default except Thunderbird and it is not common.
- throwaway120820 6y ago...and Outlook
- eli 6y agoNope, Outlook definitely loads images unless you or your administrator changed the setting.
- nvr219 6y agoThis is simply not true. Out of the box Outlook install does not display images for senders not marked safe, nor does Outlook Web App.
- jasode 6y ago>Outlook definitely loads images unless you or your administrator changed the setting. I just installed a fresh copy of Office 2019 in a vm and Outlook's default setting doesn't load images. This block-downloading-images-default behavior matches what I read here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/block-or-unblock-automatic-picture-downloads-in-email-messages-15e08854-6808-49b1-9a0a-50b81f2d617a https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/block-or-unblock-...
- eli 6y agoHm, I stand corrected
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoAnd except gmail's web interface, which is one of the biggest email clients these days.
- llacb47 6y agoGmail's web interface does load images by default.
- Joe8Bit 6y agoTechnically it loads all images through a Google proxy[0] which in theory prevents third parties from using images for tracking. The third parties only get a 'hit' when Google pulls the image into their cache, which is not when you open the mail. Google can still track you, but if you really care about that then you're probably not using Gmail anyway. [0]: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
- readams 6y agoGmail won't load remote images when you open the mail. It will load images from Google servers that have been cached.
- eli 6y agoit doesn't pre-cache them, Google requests them in real-time when you view them
- asiachick 6y agoIt does not load them from 3rd parties. It cached them and loads them from Google's servers. Open your network tab and see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail-blows-up-e-mail-marketing-by-caching-all-images-on-google-servers/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail...
- eli 6y agoThis protects your IP address and user agent string from being read by the sender, but otherwise doesn't change anything
- fmorel 6y ago
- jachee 6y agoApple Mail on iOS doesn’t.
- eli 6y agoI don't think it does. Perhaps you changed the default. Or if you're on a managed device, perhaps your administrator did.
- emayljames 6y agoFairmail on Android blocks trackers.
- shultays 6y agoI always wondered why mail providers don't load all images automatically the moment the mail is received and present a cached image to the users. Wouldn't that make tracking useless?