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Re:Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom? by gsich on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:33PM (#27467442)
>The solution is for newsletters to auto-unsubscribe users if they seem to stop interacting with the emails.

Not possible without tracking.

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Re:Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom? by toomanybeersies on Thursday June 10, 2021 @11:57PM (#27469123)
They aren't stripping query params off urls, so you can just add a recipient ID to any URLs in the email e.g.

    https://newsletter.com/linked-page?uid=7b32e2f7
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Re:Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom? by gsich on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:26AM (#27471033)
That is ... not reliable tracking.
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Re:Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom? by toomanybeersies on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:41AM (#27474810)
Works fine if you want to auto-unsubscribe recipients who don't interact with your emails.
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Re:Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom? by epigen on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:46PM (#27468446)
Click tracking
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