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Another HN today is talking about tracking pixels in newsletter mails so the sender can evaluate effectiveness. I bet a general mail-rss bridge with many subsc
by imglorp 6y ago
Another HN today is talking about tracking pixels in newsletter mails so the sender can evaluate effectiveness.
I bet a general mail-rss bridge with many subscribers would make them sad.
- samizdis 6y agoIn case anyone's missed it, that's this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162513 - from the BBC article 'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56071437 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56071437
- augusto-moura 6y agoDon't really needs a thread, using images for email tracking is a old and well known technique, but whatever maybe there are more people that don't know that in the end
- tgragnato 6y agoI usually put a curl for the tracking pixel in cron when the plain text version is not available
- chris37879 6y agoI seem to recall years ago google was looking to make that sort of thing useless because they would always download all images in an email and serve them from their cache... wonder what changed?
- Fogest 6y agoGoogle still does cache them do they not? I am pretty sure all the emailer would know is that the email got received, but I don't think they actually know if you open it. However if you click a link they would know.