How HTML Email Invades Your Privacy

More of this Feature • Part 1: HTML Return Receipts • Part 2: Preventing Privacy Infringement • Part 3b: Eudora 5 for Windows • Part 3c: Mozilla 0.6 • Part 3d: Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh • Part 3e: Eudora 5 for Macintosh • Part 3f: Netscape 4 • Part 3g: Outlook 2000

In Outlook Express for Windows, you cannot turn off HTML display.

What you can do is set your email security zone to "Trusted Sites" (on the "Security" tab in the "Options" dialog) and then turn off cookies for this zone in Internet Explorer. This won't allow sites you access from your email client to set cookies.

You can also turn off automatic image display in Internet Explorer, but this will not prevent all image return receipts (it does not work for images served via FTP, for example).

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