Re:AMP for email is bad
by magnusss on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:33PM
(#20260287)
Any email with an img tag can change its contents between views. AMP is not required to do that. The img content is retrieved from a server (or a proxy) every time the email is opened, and that content can change between opens.
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To add to this, citi recently starting using this to notify you when you reached your spending bonus after signing up for a new card. I've seen it used to load gifs that are countdown timers that once the final time is reached will always display 00:00:00.
I dislike this immensely if only because as others have said it ruins the immutability of email. But it does already exist.
Re:AMP for email is bad
by Dylan16807 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:45PM
(#20260357)
Also bad, but gmail at least tries a bit to anonymize and cache.
But sure, what they should be doing with amp is fixing that, not making it worse.