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Interesting - we used to have tracking pixels and now we have upgraded to active code spy pixels? Tracking pixels go way back, they were used primarily for del
by temp667 6y ago
Interesting - we used to have tracking pixels and now we have upgraded to active code spy pixels?
Tracking pixels go way back, they were used primarily for deliverability and engagement analysis.
The article says that now the sender can see what street you are on. I thought google proxied these so you got a google IP - how do they defeat google's proxy? Also you would think that most email providers would filter out spyware - I have not picked up any of these spy pixels through google so far.
- firecall 6y agoAny links sent in an email can become unique to the recipient. Link a link shorter, but the URLs are not short :-) You can know what link was clicked and who clicked it. So even if the images are blocked, if you click a link it goes through the link shortener redirection server, and bingo! They know more about you! :-)
- temp667 6y agoSure, tracking pixels worked this way, you give the image a unique hashed filename. But these "spy pixels" that can see the street you are on. I've not been following this space, but google proxies the request, how does the spy pixels active spyware payload deploy even? And if they are using the ip address that is just a google IP (or a cloudflare IP if I'm going through WARP).