How do I stop Thunderbird from adding adresses from incoming emails

I don't want Thunderbird to automatically add email addresses to my personal address book.
Also, when creating or forwarding email, how can I use my personal address book?

Could it be your clicking on show remote content and selecting "show remote content for this sender"? Hence adding the sender to your address book with the show remote content flag set and blaming Thunderbird for collecting the addresses?

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