Block remote images from loading in apps
Currently, the mobile apps automatically load remote images in emails. This is a privacy risk because it reveals to the sender that the recipient's address is active, that the email was opened, from which IP address, at what time, etc. This gives websites/advertisers/spammers a ton of data about users.
There needs to be an option in the apps to block remote images by default, and only load them on a per-message basis when the user chooses to do so, just like the feature in the webmail version of ProtonMail.
Within the settings ensure “Auto Show Images” is unselected to prevent remote images from being loaded automatically.
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Anonymous commented
You can all stop voting for this now, it's in the latest ProtonMail app!
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Anonymous commented
this needs to be in protonmail's app. i'm surprised it isn't in there already. on iOS, even the built-in mail app has a feature for preventing remote images from loading. without it, there is too much surveillance of users' email habits.