Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
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.
I understood the theme of the thread, but since you read webmail with a
browser, I consider that a website. So if a spammer sends something from
crock.com and you read it at yahoo.com, crock.com is not the
"originating server" in the same way as yahoo.com would be, right? Of
course, it's certainly possible that a spammer could send from the
recipient's own ISP, especially if it's a big one.
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.
Forgive my ignorance, but what would a "legitimate web beacon" be?
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