• Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    So, my father in Australia is losing his computer skills over time and in order for me to make sure he’s not being scammed, again, he gave me access to his outlook mail. After checking for a week or two, his spam mail has changed languages. Not just the official “advertising” but the spam mail.

    How is this possible without micro soft dicks selling this information to spammers?

    • Cort@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      How is this possible without micro soft dicks selling this information to spammers?

      If you’ve opened any of the emails and loaded any images, the server hosting those images gets your IP when you load the image. Some times it’s just a single pixel