DUDE you just pulled this out of the deepest crevices of my memory

I have outlook (both personal and work), gmail (both personal and school), comcast, and email apps on my phone. On every single client, whether in-browser or mobile app, I have to click "load images" when I open an email or they won't load. It's been like this for years. Idk if the iPhone email app is different since I have a Galaxy but I imagine not. I admit I'm assuming this feature is disabled by default purely based on my anecdotal evidence though.

Yeah I understand the rebranding. I just don't see how that ties into what we're talking about

What the fuck are you talking about

Yeah this was my understanding. The link to the image is unique to your email (it doesn't execute code lol) so that when the user loads it they know that email has been opened. I don't see how using a proxy would fix this because it's still going to use the unique link.

This has been around for loooong time. It's nothing new. Not a single major email provider auto displays images for this reason. That's why users have to click a button to show images since many years ago.

If the setting you mentioned is on then the user must have enabled it.