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For those reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354114 OSX mail client does not help.
by omnifischer 9y ago
For those reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354114 OSX mail client does not help.
- akerro 9y agoThunderbird blocks remote content in emails.
- mosselman 9y agoWhat do you mean? I have blocked external content, is that not enough?
- f055 9y agoOS X mail has an explicit option in the "Viewing" section of its preferences saying "Load remote content in messages. Email messages may contain images or content stored on remote servers." I think this option was there since Lion or even earlier.
- omnifischer 9y agoThe average user enables them otherwise, newsletters or other mails are unreadable. Smarter would be if Apple can IMAP store certain content.
- mpweiher 9y agoActually, the paper says it does. It doesn't display inline content, I think by default. The paper goes on to say that then you don't get to look at those e-mails. Yes. That's OK.
- englehardt 9y agoWe found that Apple Mail clients typically load remote resources by default, unless the message is spam. That content can't set or retrieve cookies, which is an improvement over other standalone clients. I'd still recommend disabling remote content by default since the tracking identifiers (the hash of your email address, etc) are present in the image URL. That's enough to continue to track the read and serve targeted content. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20170922213846/https://support.liveintent.com/hc/en-us/articles/208828206-Solving-for-Google-Proxy https://web.archive.org/web/20170922213846/https://support.l...