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Email clients started out without embedded images. Images came after the initial email implementation. So one could say that displaying images in email clients
by capableweb 6y ago
Email clients started out without embedded images. Images came after the initial email implementation. So one could say that displaying images in email clients is rather new. Also, most if not all email clients have the option of disabling Inline images.
Email clients, just like browsers, are made specifically to handle untrusted user content. That then some people/clients allow information leak, is another thing. Just like websockets in modern browsers.
- brmgb 6y agoSure, let's pretend images in email are a new development and should be stopped. Meanwhile in the real world some of us have actual users. Pretending we should stop using widely used and useful technology while flailing your arms and shooting "but security!" is not going to help anyone.
- capableweb 6y ago> Sure, let's pretend images in email are a new development and should be stopped. What? No. No one is arguing that... The only thing I'm refuting in my previous comment is "Some email clients try not to do this, but that's actually somewhat recent" which seems to indicate chrisseaton thinks that email clients that don't load images is a new thing. So the idea is that first we had email clients, then the email clients added the option to hide images. When in reality, email clients started out without images, then they added images. Way to reply to a comment without reading the context and subsequently completely miss the point.