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So, my father in Australia is losing his computer skills over time and in order for me to make sure he's not being scammed, again, he gave me access to his outlook mail. After checking for a week or two, his spam mail has changed languages. Not just the official "advertising" but the spam mail.
How 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
Which is why any decent mail client doesn't do that by default and why web interfaces suck.
ah, the 'ol transparant pixel
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.