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Microsoft Swats at Stealthy Web Bugs | |
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| Time: 08:48 EST/13:48 GMT | News Source: New York Times | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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PRIVACY advocates say a shift by Microsoft could effectively marginalize a particularly intrusive use of Web bugs, the tracking and profiling devices used by online marketers and spammers. Last month Microsoft retooled its Hotmail service, adding a feature that allows users to block Web bugs placed inside e-mail messages. A similar option exists in the most recent version of Microsoft's widely used Outlook Express e-mail program, and the company says the next release of its other e-mail program, Outlook, will block the tracking mechanisms by default. | ||
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| #1 By 7390 (198.246.16.251) at 6/12/2003 1:51:35 PM |
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This can also be done in Outlook 2002 by changing some registry settings.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307594 To be honest viewing mail in plain text didn't really reduce the number of spam that I receive. To only way to truly reduce spam is to sue the companys that employ these tactics. |
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