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Re:Show HN: Email Cleaner: Clean tracking links and pixels f... by yunohn on Sunday February 28, 2021 @03:17PM (#26296655)
The super-long URLs that you see are already linked to the email address (and other contact details) that you provided while signing up for the newsletter. So, clicking it yourself, or via the the proxy script, will not change much. They really just track whether you open it or not, so they know the popularity of the content.
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Re:Show HN: Email Cleaner: Clean tracking links and pixels f... by bengtan on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:37PM (#26298522)
From the article:

> It’s privacy-by-obfuscation instead of privacy-by-abstention. But it does prevent your web browser/IP address/location from being leaked.

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