Comments on: Apple Mail: How to avoid being tracked yet still see images

By: James Churchman

James Churchman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:41:10 +0000

yeah it’s a shame you cant “trust” sites/domains/contacts in apple mail to display images (well as far as i know you can’t) then it would be easier and more powerful than Little Snitch.

Little Snitch is great though, i think these days it’s features should be a standard with any OS just like a firewall is nowadays, its actually more important !

By: alec

alec — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:18:03 +0000

Great tip James.

That is a bit easier and does mean you don’t need Little Snitch.

On the other hand, as you mention, it’s a lot less granular. But it’s a very good start.

By: James Churchman

James Churchman — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:29:22 +0000

nice and a bit more customisable than usual, but turning off “Display Remote Images” under the “Viewing” tab is probably a bit more useful for most people, and also gives a nice “load images” for any page with embedded images, in order to load them

James

By: alec

alec — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:39:45 +0000

Hi James,

Thanks for stopping by.

Not true. Each time you open up the mail and the remote images are downloaded counts as a hit. The problem is not with included images but with remote images with special tracking URLs. Sometimes they are even hidden small dots.

By: James Katt

James Katt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:23:12 +0000

If you set up your email application to automatically and regularly download all email and images, then you can’t be tracked since it is then not an individual’s specific actions and instead an automated unattended behavior of a computer.