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Tracking bugs in images is what killed HTML in email. For my security and privacy I have to block all external content by default. This means I get a ton of mar

Tracking bugs in images is what killed HTML in email. For my security and privacy I have to block all external content by default. This means I get a ton of marketing emails that are either blank or missing the important bits unless I choose to load the external content. The end result is that they almost always get trashed unread. I might actually be missing out on a useful new product or a great deal but I'm not going to bother with the extra clicks and unknown risks because marketing wanted to make it pretty over making it accessible.

nuancebydefault 4y ago
Do you really think you might get great deals by reading emails that you did not ask for? Just remember that the one who sent you the email did it for their own profit. So it's a good thing you thrash them. Most such emails have an unsubscribe link that works. If not, simply mark them as spam. So far for the filtering. The rest of the emails most likely contain good communication with people you know, who mostly do not bother adding bitmaps in their signature; but they might use other paragraph options like bold, italics, in-line photographs or diagrams, code snippets in monospaced font or other features that make the email more readable or informative. So that is why i do not agree with 'html killed email'.