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Spammers Track Usage, Too

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Most of the HTML newsletters you receive will include images, which are downloaded from a remote server when you open the email to track whether you actually do open (and possibly even read) the message.

Spammers, never shy to exploit all possibilities, are using tracking images, too. Some do indeed seem to be interested whether an email address works, and by downloading the tracking image you confirm that (maybe resulting in even more spam).

So how can you avoid being tracked?

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