ah, the 'ol transparant pixel
Comment on Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue
Cort@lemmy.world 11 hours agoHow is this possible without micro soft dicks selling this information to spammers?
If you’ve opened any of the emails and loaded any images, the server hosting those images gets your IP when you load the image. Some times it’s just a single pixel
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 10 hours ago
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
So they could stop it, but don’t. I’ll never get him to switch to something like proton mail or whatever safe alternative there is.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Which is why any decent mail client doesn’t do that by default and why web interfaces suck.