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Depending on the platform used to send the email, it's trivial to change that pixel to any other image, ie a brand logo in the template. On the whole, disablin
by iamacyborg 7y ago
Depending on the platform used to send the email, it's trivial to change that pixel to any other image, ie a brand logo in the template.
On the whole, disabling images entirely is the only real defence against email tracking.
- microcolonel 7y agoOr I guess the mail server could just always precache all images at the time of receipt. Then nothing new happens when the mail is read. I think somebody here is describing GMail's approach that way.
- iamacyborg 7y agogmail's cache hides a users location but you can still tell when they've opened an email, and you can still get a ton of information if they click a tracked link within the email as well.
- accatyyc 7y agoThen email servers would have to download billions of images of which 99% the corresponding email won't even be opened