Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'

Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' by jaywalk on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:26AM (#26168175)

I've got a system where a visitor to a web page can request to have product information emailed to them. That is the only way anyone would ever get an email from this system, and I don't even store the email address so I couldn't spam them if I wanted to. And yet, I still get a number of spam complaints every day.

I don't get it.

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Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' by meowster on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:24PM (#26168865)

Unintended recipients don't know it will only be a single, one-time email. To them, it looks exactly like spam. Don't look at it from your perspective, look at it from a random stranger's perspective.

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Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' by chris_va on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:30AM (#26168218)

... what if someone inputs a random email address?

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Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' by jaywalk on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:54AM (#26168518)

I mean, they could. I don't see the point of that though. All of the product information is available directly on the page where they can email themselves, it's not like one of those "give us your email before you can see the info" things. It's more just to give the user something to reference.

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