For privacy reasons, Outlook does not download email pictures by default. By embedding a hyperlinked image, the sender can trace your IP address, provided that the sender is good at what they do. In this article, we discuss how you can make Outlook download images automatically on Mac irrespective of whether the sender is in your contacts or not. When viewing some emails in Microsoft Outlook, if the sender has included images, I get the following option appear at the top of the email: 'To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of some pictures in this message' I am unsure how preventing the download of images in an email will protect my privacy.
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