![]() ![]() If you’d like to know more, consider reading this excellent explanation of tracking pixels. Preventing these from loading can cut down on a lot of information that is collected through email marketing. These are small (1 pixel x 1 pixel) “images” that designed to be invisible to the user, but that connect to a remote host to share information about the user. If images are allowed to load, “tracking pixels” can also load. Unfortunately this makes many automated emails look “broken” but for good reason: none of the images and content can load. These settings can allow you to prevent media and images contained in emails from automatically loading. This is a very important and often overlooked set of security/privacy settings. ![]() Accessing them requires first logging into your account, then clicking the “Settings” button along the upper banner. Most of the features discussed in this post are available to all ProtonMail users, including the free tier. I pay full price, out-of-pocket and have received no discounts, free service, or any other incentive from ProtonMail. However, I have pay full price – minus discounts available to all ProtonMail users – for both of my paid ProtonMail accounts (one a ProtonMail Plus plan, one a ProtonMail Professional plan). Obviously I am a fan of ProtonMail, and I selfishly want others to use it so more of my communications are encrypted. Some of these features are quite complex, so bear with me. Though ProtonMail is meant to be out-of-the-box secure, the user can improve upon the security of the stock configuration. Today I’m going to dig into the nitty-gritty of the user-configurable security features included in ProtonMail. In the last installment, we discussed differences between the various paid tiers and the paid features available with each. This post will cover the basics of ProtonMail: how it encrypts your data-in-motion, data-at-rest, and some other features. A lot has changed since ProtonMail’s beginnings. My contact form forward emails to a ProtonMail account, and any of you that have interacted with me have done so through ProtonMail on my end. I have been using ProtonMail full-time for over five years, and recommending it for almost six.
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