Mail Privacy Protection
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Mail Privacy Protection is an Apple email privacy feature that hides users’ IP addresses and blocks remote content tracking to prevent senders from knowing when and where messages are opened.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mail Privacy Protection canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9502609 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mail Privacy Protection Context triple: [macOS Monterey, includedFeature, Mail Privacy Protection]
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A.
Hide My Email
Hide My Email is an Apple privacy feature that lets users generate unique, random email addresses that forward to their personal inbox to keep their real address private.
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B.
Cleartext Considered Obsolete: Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Email Submission and Access
"Cleartext Considered Obsolete: Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Email Submission and Access" (RFC 8314) is an IETF standards-track document that recommends and defines best practices for using TLS to secure email submission and retrieval protocols instead of unencrypted connections.
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C.
Privacy Cleaner
Privacy Cleaner is a built-in tool in Avast Secure Browser designed to remove browsing data and enhance user privacy by clearing traces of online activity.
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D.
Mozilla Enhanced Tracking Protection
Mozilla Enhanced Tracking Protection is a browser privacy feature in Firefox that automatically blocks many forms of online tracking, including third-party cookies and known trackers, to protect users’ privacy while browsing.
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E.
MAIL
MAIL is the stock ticker symbol for Mail.ru Group, a major Russian internet and online services company.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mail Privacy Protection Target entity description: Mail Privacy Protection is an Apple email privacy feature that hides users’ IP addresses and blocks remote content tracking to prevent senders from knowing when and where messages are opened.
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A.
Hide My Email
Hide My Email is an Apple privacy feature that lets users generate unique, random email addresses that forward to their personal inbox to keep their real address private.
-
B.
Cleartext Considered Obsolete: Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Email Submission and Access
"Cleartext Considered Obsolete: Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Email Submission and Access" (RFC 8314) is an IETF standards-track document that recommends and defines best practices for using TLS to secure email submission and retrieval protocols instead of unencrypted connections.
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C.
Privacy Cleaner
Privacy Cleaner is a built-in tool in Avast Secure Browser designed to remove browsing data and enhance user privacy by clearing traces of online activity.
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D.
Mozilla Enhanced Tracking Protection
Mozilla Enhanced Tracking Protection is a browser privacy feature in Firefox that automatically blocks many forms of online tracking, including third-party cookies and known trackers, to protect users’ privacy while browsing.
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E.
MAIL
MAIL is the stock ticker symbol for Mail.ru Group, a major Russian internet and online services company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple software feature
ⓘ
email privacy feature ⓘ |
| affects |
email marketing analytics
ⓘ
email open rate measurement accuracy ⓘ location-based email tracking ⓘ |
| announcedAtEvent |
Apple WWDC 2021
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
|
| blocks |
remote content loading that can track opens
ⓘ
tracking pixels in emails ⓘ |
| category | privacy and security feature ⓘ |
| configuration | user can enable or disable in Mail settings ⓘ |
| defaultBehavior | enabled by default for many users on supported systems ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| doesNotRequire | changes to sender email infrastructure ⓘ |
| featureOf | Apple Mail privacy settings ⓘ |
| impactOnSenders |
reduces precision of location-based targeting in email campaigns
ⓘ
reduces reliability of open tracking metrics ⓘ |
| introducedInVersion |
iOS 15
ⓘ
iPadOS 15 ⓘ
linked to:
iPadOS
macOS Monterey ⓘ |
| limits |
sender ability to build profiles based on email opens
ⓘ
sender ability to determine user’s IP-based geolocation ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
iOS
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple Mail for iOS
ⓘ
linked to:
iOS Mail
Apple Mail for iPadOS ⓘ
linked to:
iOS Mail
Apple Mail for macOS ⓘ |
| protects |
recipient IP address
ⓘ
recipient device information to some extent ⓘ recipient location information ⓘ recipient open-time information ⓘ |
| purpose |
block remote content tracking in emails
ⓘ
hide users’ IP addresses from email senders ⓘ prevent senders from knowing when messages are opened ⓘ prevent senders from knowing where messages are opened ⓘ protect email privacy ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
App Tracking Transparency
ⓘ
Hide My Email ⓘ iCloud Private Relay ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| scope | emails opened in Apple Mail app ⓘ |
| softwareComponentOf |
Apple Mail
ⓘ
linked to:
iOS Mail
|
| targetUser | Apple device users who use Apple Mail ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
masking IP address
ⓘ
preloading remote images ⓘ proxy server for loading remote email content ⓘ |
| vendor |
Apple
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Inc.
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mail Privacy Protection Description of subject: Mail Privacy Protection is an Apple email privacy feature that hides users’ IP addresses and blocks remote content tracking to prevent senders from knowing when and where messages are opened.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.