Re:Foiling Electronic Snoops in Email
by plorg on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:31AM
(#10688319)
As the article mentions, images aren't the only problem here. I haven't allowed images in email for ages, but I'm still pretty concerned about tracking through other means.
In pretty much every automatically generated email I receive, links direct me through some sort of click-tracking system. There is rarely a direct link to a website, and an adblocker is of limited use since much of the information is sent via the link URL.
Re:Foiling Electronic Snoops in Email
by noinsight on Sunday December 06, 2015 @12:28PM
(#10685819)
Yes, this is why proper clients disable remote content by default. This technique has been used by spammers for ages. Surprisingly, the iOS Mail app fetches remote content by default - I had to turn that off.
Other submissions - commentless:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10595666
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590303 (deleted)
In pretty much every automatically generated email I receive, links direct me through some sort of click-tracking system. There is rarely a direct link to a website, and an adblocker is of limited use since much of the information is sent via the link URL.