No one is opening those emails about privacy updates

Re:No one is opening those emails about privacy updates by craftyguy on Friday June 15, 2018 @09:20PM (#17325187)

> Most Americans are not opening those emails

Hmm, the only way they would know this is if they are tracking folks when they open the email, right?

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Re:No one is opening those emails about privacy updates by stretchwithme on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:17PM (#17325422)

I think it's routine to include a link to an image in every email. When the URL is loaded, they know you've opened it.

But this isn't reliable. People who block images don't record that they opened it. It's entirely possible that this accounts for "No one is opening those" privacy policy emails.

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Re:No one is opening those emails about privacy updates by Leynos on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:05AM (#17326302)

I thought most email clients block third party images by default? Certainly Outlook, Thunderbird, and K9 do. This must skew those results somewhat.

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Re:No one is opening those emails about privacy updates by klez on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:46AM (#17326459)

I think I saw statistics somewhere that most people read their mail via the web interface of their email provider, not via a client, and I don't know whether web clients block remote content loading.

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Re:No one is opening those emails about privacy updates by Leynos on Sunday June 17, 2018 @05:21AM (#17331579)

I thought that might be the case.

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Re:No one is opening those emails about privacy updates by XorNot on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:38PM (#17325496)

I mean I block images but I also definitely ignore every "we're changing our privacy policy..." email.

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