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Hey Guys I had a question. Thinking of adding all my stealth emails to my Iphone if I look at the email titles when it comes in without actually opening the email will they be able to link the accounts together. The reason im asking is because I need to know when I get a question from a customer and then logging in to that specific account. Thanks
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I have the Gmail set up on my iPhone and can see the emails from eBay and PayPal coming through, you need to disable images for the accounts, so none of the little pictures come up as they contain tracking cookies. You can then open and read the emails, just don't click on any of the links, and don't have any eBay apps on the iPhone either.
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The question is not about the iPhone but about your email provider. Whether it is Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. you need to turn of the "display images" option (youll have to find the setting in your specific email client). Ebay tracks through beacons which are embedded in the images that are in the emails, so if you turn them off (no images are displayed) then you can open the email and even read it without being tracked.
To answer the original question yes you can funnel all your emails to your iphone, not open them, just read the subject line, and login to your accounts and do your work. But I would HIGHLY recommend turning off display images, if for no other reason you might accidentally tap one of the emails and then you are cooked.
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This is a new one for me ... I call this nonsense but correctly me if I am still wrong. I never had any issues opening and reading emails/messages coming from eBay into my gmail account(s) my on iPhone. Sometimes I enable images option just to see what's it that my buyer is showing. Never had any issues. What you CANNOT however do is REPLY. Once you do they know your IP address. A lot of misinformation and confusion is happening on this forum. I feel sorry for noobs ...
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Originally Posted by fox20c The question is not about the iPhone but about your email provider. Whether it is Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. you need to turn of the "display images" option (youll have to find the setting in your specific email client). Ebay tracks through beacons which are embedded in the images that are in the emails, so if you turn them off (no images are displayed) then you can open the email and even read it without being tracked.
To answer the original question yes you can funnel all your emails to your iphone, not open them, just read the subject line, and login to your accounts and do your work. But I would HIGHLY recommend turning off display images, if for no other reason you might accidentally tap one of the emails and then you are cooked. | As fox20c stated, best to keep images and beacons off - just to be ultra-safe
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Originally Posted by stanislav What you CANNOT however do is REPLY. Once you do they know your IP address. | When using gmail you can reply http://www.aspkin.com/forums/amazon/...tml#post472875
eBay will not see your IP address, they will only see the gmail serves IP address.
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Thanks James, that's handy to know!
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Thank you James :D
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Originally Posted by stanislav Thank you James :D | We checked this thoroughly.
The IP defaulted to that of GOOGLE.
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please how to i turn of display image on outlook/gmail any video tutorial
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For Gmail
1 - Click settings (button with a clog on it) in the top right of the screen
2 - On the first tab you can see the option 'Ask before displaying external images'. Select that
3 - Scroll to the bottom of the settings, click 'save changes'
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Originally Posted by JamesNorth101 For Gmail
1 - Click settings (button with a clog on it) in the top right of the screen
2 - On the first tab you can see the option 'Ask before displaying external images'. Select that
3 - Scroll to the bottom of the settings, click 'save changes' | See this sounds so retarded but I 100 percent have Images off on Gmail and saved, but it still displays images on the iPhone. Have I missed something obvious or does baby jesus just hate me?
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Well, Google has recently started to show images by default for some emails (I believe). I don't think this is for every email sent out just yet.
What they do is upload that image to their servers so it's not hosted by a 3rd party and is not a tracking issue. This is why you may see images on when you have selected to have them off.. this is a good thing. Google is protecting you.
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Originally Posted by aspkin Well, Google has recently started to show images by default for some emails (I believe). I don't think this is for every email sent out just yet.
What they do is upload that image to their servers so it's not hosted by a 3rd party and is not a tracking issue. This is why you may see images on when you have selected to have them off.. this is a good thing. Google is protecting you. | Right so you are saying that even though I have images off on gmail, the eBay and paypal images that I am seeing on the iPhone are pre loaded from gmail and won't send data to eBay? Sounds risky to assume!
Edit: I think I've sorted it. In iPhone Mail settings there is a 'load remote images' setting which I had on!
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Good stuff, glad you figured it out.
And yes, if Google hosts the image it's not an issue.
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Originally Posted by Kiroshi Edit: I think I've sorted it. In iPhone Mail settings there is a 'load remote images' setting which I had on! | Good for all gmail users to verify
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Originally Posted by rsot Good for all gmail users to verify | especially if they have iphones |
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Wow, thanks Kiroshi! I had Load Remote Images on too.
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Originally Posted by novemberrain1970 Wow, thanks Kiroshi! I had Load Remote Images on too. | No worries mate, surprised it hasnt been mentioned before as half the world have iphones haha
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So if I turn off Load Remote Images I can open my emails on my iPhone?
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Originally Posted by nas So if I turn off Load Remote Images I can open my emails on my iPhone? | Seems what James has indicated...keep it simple nas
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There was a time that I had the Gmail app on my BlackBerry to load up and constantly refresh 34 different gmail accounts
99.9999999999% of the time you don't need to open the email to see what it says. You can just tell what's going on just by reading the email titles.
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