How to turn off "your network preferences prevent content from loading privately" for email in Ventura?

Ooops. Once I did that, the problem disappears. BUT, doing so reduces privacy ... being able to hide the IP address should not be a factor in downloading embedded images. Anyway, thanks for the tips.

Stephen

It's not a setting you turn off in System Settings. It is where it has always been in Mail Settings > Privacy. Disable all of the checkboxes on that tab.

Or, disable whatever VPN or Proxy you are using. There could be some other network settings that affect Mail's ability to load content via the double relay, but I don't know what they are.

I don't think that this is the answer in respect of privacy. When one disables all three checkboxes this protection setting (loading via two relay servers while obfuscating the receiving computer) the original intention of privacy here gets undermined, or not? Or am I missing something here?

Nope ... restarted Mail and no change .. still asks me to click the link to directly load images.

Stephen

If you want to use the service, then you would need to figure out what odd thing is set up on your network (or get the iOS to figure out there is nothing really interfering).

If you’re running every bit of your Internet traffic through a VPN service so that they can sell all of your information as one complete block, then it doesn’t matter if you turn that off in Mail as your IP address is already being obfuscated by the VPN.

If you are not using a VPN, a proxy, or some other Internet security software, then you might try starting up in safe mode, and then restart normally.

I think I saw a post where the person had to reinstall the OS to make it work.

Yes, you would no longer have that service if you disable it, just like you had when you ran an older macOS that didn't have that feature.

The system cannot establish the connection through the double relay, so if you want to not have to click the button, that's what you must do.

You disabled all three checkboxes in the Privacy tab?