Guide | How To How emails can be used to track your location and how to stop it

[Venustus]

"The answer to protecting yourself from this kind of tracking is straightforward - don't load the images.

You can do this by forcing all your email to render as plain text or by allowing it to render HTML without images.

Most email clients are well disposed to help you with this and will actually do the latter by default, giving you the option to download the images if you decide you want them.

The most notable exception to this is Gmail which loads remote content automatically unless you take back control of your images.

For your part you need only understand that loading images in emails means "tell the sender you've just opened their email and you'd like them to send you the rest of the message".

So, if you don't trust marketers and stalkers with your location and email-reading schedule, it's time to take back remote content loading.

Below are instructions on how to switch off image loading in seven of the most popular email clients:

iOS Mail

1. Click the Settings icon
2. Click Mail, Contacts, and Calendars
3. Toggle Load Remote Images to off.

Outlook (Desktop)

1. Click the Tools menu
2. Click Trust Center
3. Click Automatic Download
4. Check Don't download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items.

Outlook.com

1. Click on the Settings icon (cog)
2. Click More Email settings
3. Click Filters and Reporting under Junk Email
4. Select Block attachments, pictures, and links for anyone not in my safe senders list.

Apple’s Mail

1. Click Mail
2. Click Preferences
3. Click Viewing
4. Uncheck Display remote images in HTML messages.

Yahoo Mail

1. Click the Settings icon
2. Click Settings
3. Click Security
4. Locate Show images in email
5. Select Never by Default.

Gmail

1. Click the Settings icon
2. Stay in the General tab
3. Scroll down to the Images section
4. Choose Ask before displaying external images
5. Click Save Changes.

Android Gmail app

1. Tap the menu button
2. Tap Settings
3. Tap on your email address
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen
5. Tap Images
6. Select Ask before showing."

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[software182]

thanks for sharing, gonna do this for my gmail

 

[Rahadian Putra]

Buddy, you are really computer geek , I don't know about such thing till now, thanks! gonna setting my email now