![]() ![]() The “Security Trust” answer is very clear and simple on this, So why should I treat strangers and those people / technology I do not in any way trust any differently? ![]() “Unless you are a fool you don’t let your neighbours tom cat come into your home and spray as it want’s.” If people feel they are offended, let me put it this way, If other people do not like it “tough on them” as the “pub landlord” catch phrase has it “My gaff, my rules”. In fact you will not find Email servers or clients on any of my computers, or other systems, and there is not a snowball in hells fiery pit chance that I’m going to alow any type of non CTRL-striped 7bit ASCII or above into the gap-crossing systems. Which was what it was supposed to be according to an RFC of the time.īut I’m more “alergic than ever” these days to Email… And have not done so for a decade and a half, and for the decade and a half before that, the Email had to conform to, Well I do have sufficient evidence on the other side and not just “Traffic Analysis 101”.Īs some around here remember, I don’t do personal, private or most other types of Email. If the change breaks anything too badly, the senders were already doing something wrong: there should always be a text/plain variant, ALT text for images referenced by HTML, etc. Personally, I think the companies behind major email user-agents (Apple, Google, MS) should declare that external content will cease being accessed at all for messages sent after a certain date, and the caching is just to hold us over till then. I remember these tracking images affecting the first generation of HTML-enabled email clients, in the ’90s by the second generation, many had been updated to prevent auto-downloading and to attach any image pasted into a message. When did it become normal for email clients to download images anyway? I’d have thought if someone wanted images (or stylesheets etc.) to be visible to their recipients, they’d have attached them to the messages, not referenced them on some external server. I’m a bit confused, if I disable automatic downloading of images by default in my mail client doesn’t that achieve the same thing? The company waived that requirement for me. Normally, Mailchimp requires them to be left on for the first few mailings, presumably to prevent abuse. Apples also routes the download through two different proxies, meaning your precise location also can’t be tracked.Ĭrypto-Gram uses Mailchimp, which has these tracking pixels turned on by default. Practically speaking, that means every message downloaded to Apple Mail is marked “read,” regardless of whether you open it. Apple Mail downloads all images for all emails before you open them. So, how does Apple Mail stop this? By caching. ![]() This quirk of internet history means that marketers can track exactly when you open an email and your IP address, which can be used to roughly work out your location. The server keeps track of every time this “image” is opened and by which IP address. Most email newsletters you get include an invisible “image,” typically a single white pixel, with a unique file name. Apple Mail now blocks email trackers by default. ![]()
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