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So do we go back to a world of completely plain-text emails? No buttons? Links buried in a wall of ASCII? We use SendGrid to fire important, user-anticipated e
by drchopchop 6y ago
So do we go back to a world of completely plain-text emails? No buttons? Links buried in a wall of ASCII?
We use SendGrid to fire important, user-anticipated emails (i.e. "the Zoom class you paid for is starting at 8:30 AM, here's the private link").
Blocking all images is insane, and would set back email UX to the BBS ages. Blocking all SendGrid-served images would simply mean people host images on their own domain (or disguise the DNS), and could write their own open/click tracking systems, which would negate the point of blocking SG pixels in the first place.
- Nextgrid 6y ago> set back email UX to the BBS ages I don't understand why that's bad or why e-mail needs an "UX" beyond being text. E-mail is there to convey information and text is the most efficient way to do it. If images are really important, you can include them as attachments and they'll be displayed even with remote content blocked.
- upofadown 6y agoYou can after all just include the images with the email using something like a CID URL. ... and a link that a user has to explicitly click on is not a 10th as bad as any sort of process out of their control.
- alexmingoia 6y agoFastmail blocks loading of images by default. I have never needed to load the images to get whatever I need from the email. And if I need to I can click a button to load them if I trust the sender.