A Stranger Can Find Out Where You Are By Getting You To Open An Email

Discussion in 'privacy problems' started by lotuseclat79, Feb 11, 2014.

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    lotuseclat79 Registered Member

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    In other words, nothing new. Clients like Thunderbird and online services like Outlook don't load remote content by default anyway.

    Also keep in mind that some online services proxy remote content to protect you. Others don't in which case browser extensions like ABP can block them. In Thunderbird you can install the ABP extension.
     
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