Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > >> You can't block web beacons in webmail. All webmail sites, regardless >> of who it is - as far as I know - have no way to block the display of >> external images linked from elsewhere on the WWW. SeaMonkey and >> Thunderbird do that easily. > > Well, maybe you can... > Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security: > > Image Acceptance Policy > Specify how SeaMonkey handles images > (o) Do not load any images > (•) Only load images that come from the originating server (o) Load all > images > > I'd be interested in hearing what an expert has to say about how > effective this would be. Does "the originating server" mean the website > you're visiting? If I visit devils.nhl.com, will I get images from > nhl.com? > > Of course, if "the originating server" uses web beacons, I'll get them > anyway, so they can track my navigation through their site. More likely, > though, they'll try to use cookies for that, and if I'm logging in to > read webmail, I have to accept them. > > You can also use third-party software such as AdBlock Plus, but I'm not > sure how effective those things are because I can't see the difference.
You seem to be discussing web sites, while the general trend of the thread is about webmail email accounts using an ISP's webmail pages or perhaps even hotmail/yahoo/gmail. That's a bit different than just visiting a web page. Besides, most legitimate web beacons in email report to the company that wrote the email, hence the same domain name -- at least those not in spam email. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
