Show HN: Email Cleaner: Clean tracking links and pixels from email newsletters

Re:Show HN: Email Cleaner: Clean tracking links and pixels f... by upofadown on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:24PM (#26297197)

Privacy is a hot topic right now. Most just turn off the loading of remote assets in HTML emails but there is a certain simplicity to just reading the text. Just today I provided some suggestions to someone on plain text oriented email clients.

As for myself, the issue has never really come up as I have used Mutt since forever. The w3m browser does a great job of converting stuff like HTML tables to well formatted plain text for those times where the text is unreadable or missing. Which raises the question of why that could not work for the newsletter generators. Is the starting HTML really that bad?

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Re:Show HN: Email Cleaner: Clean tracking links and pixels f... by bengtan on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:36PM (#26298519)

Thanks for your feedback.

> Is the starting HTML really that bad?

I think the mailing list service providers just don't care. If they did, they would easily see that extremely long blocks of random text (ie. a link) in plain text kills the readability.

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