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It's not like only advertisers would benefit from read recipes in email. It would be very useful to know when your friend opens your message, which I assume is
by thekyle 6y ago
It's not like only advertisers would benefit from read recipes in email. It would be very useful to know when your friend opens your message, which I assume is why basically every mainstream messaging app has the feature.
- Nextgrid 6y agoMessaging apps make it explicitly clear and offer a way to opt-out. In e-mails it isn't clear at all and unless you're tech-savvy you might not immediately realize that "remote content" means "read receipts". Also, messenger read receipts don't leak your IP address and what kind of client you're using (via the user-agent header) whereas e-mails do.
- thekyle 6y agoIn this context, we're talking about RFC 2298, which doesn't leak your IP address and is opt-in. It is completely unrelated to "remote content" settings.
- ncallaway 6y ago> It would be very useful to know when your friend opens your message Sure, it might be useful for them, but I'd still like to have to opt-in to it. If my friend embedded a tracking pixel in my email because I didn't have read receipts and they wanted to know if I'd opened their email, I'd be having a real serious conversation about boundaries and privacy with that "friend". Advertisers that do the same thing are being shitty people, in exactly the same way it'd be shitty if a friend did it. To be clear, I'm not arguing against read receipts. I'm arguing against _working around_ opt-in read receipts.