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beacon tracking
 

I have been doing well with remembering to only log into my new identity accounts from 1 computer with a dedicated username on the computer and to not access the pp or eb accounts from any of the IPs I use for my main account, however the other day I accessed the yahoo email from my main computer/ip and without thinking opened a paypal email about activation of the account & confirming things & what not.

For the experienced veterans here, do you think there was a web beacon in that pp email that could jam me up? I really don't want to have to scrap that set of accounts/card/bank account, etc & start over, but I obviously don't want them linked as my main account has to be pretty close to suspension due to vero crap.

I viewed the source of the yahoo email and the only reference i saw to beacon was something to the effect of usebeacon=false or something.

its not recommended but i open emails from old accounts all the time, except through aol ... for some reason im paranoid of them lol

how can you tell if there is a beacon in the email? I open up my emails all the time too i havent been linked yet. I use gmail. IS a beacon just a mythical creature ?

Gmail doesn't autoload linked things in an email like images so it wouldn't affect you.