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The external images tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussion of how email clients handle images loaded from outside servers, with a focus on privacy and tracking. The tagged content examines Microsoft's rollout of a block-all external images setting for Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows, described in Microsoft 365 roadmap item 565862. The thread explains why remote images can act as tracking pixels that tell senders when a message was opened, and it frames the new controls as a response to long-standing user requests. Readers interested in Outlook privacy settings and Microsoft 365 roadmap changes will find the most relevant material here.
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    New Outlook and Web Roll Out Block-All External Images Setting for Privacy

    Some email images are tiny spies. You open a newsletter, the picture loads from someone's server, and the sender learns the message was read. Microsoft is giving Outlook users more control over that. Microsoft 365 roadmap item 565862, titled "Outlook: Block External Images Settings Update," says...