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A good start would be ditching HTML in email. Plain text is perfectly suitable for non-marketing emails (and marketing emails are just chaff at this point anywa

by rapind 2y ago

A good start would be ditching HTML in email. Plain text is perfectly suitable for non-marketing emails (and marketing emails are just chaff at this point anyways). I’ll die on this hill.

MetaWhirledPeas 2y ago
One word deserves so much blame for the current state of the internet: marketing
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atemerev 2y ago
You can be perfectly spearphished by a plaintext email, sent by your “colleague”, mentioning some current issue at work, and asking to verify some ticket or by your “friend” mentioning a highly personal issue that only you two were supposed to know, asking you to phone someone on their behalf or by your “relative”, etc.
- rapind 2y ago
  Security is eliminating attack vectors one at a time. HTML in email is a gigantic hole. We don’t throw up our hands and say “whelp this only solves 90% of issues. Guess we don’t bother.”
xyst 2y ago
> I’ll die on this hill. Same. I found a setting in legacy outlook to force all e-mails to be in plain text. So every corporate email I reply to, converts the product owners html formatted emails into junk. Gives me a little joy that the e-mail they worked so hard on gets mangled by my outlook replies :)
IshKebab 2y ago
> A good start would be ditching HTML in email. How would that help? You can put links in plain text.
- rapind 2y ago
  It's all about attack surface and HTMLs attack surface is huge. HTML in email is strictly unnecessary. Name another popular messaging tool that allows you to craft custom HTML messages. Text, Whatsapp, social posts, Snapchat, etc. The only people who want to send HTML emails are marketers, advertisers, trackers, scammers, hackers, and that clueless manager who wants the cornflower blue background. (most of these actors are the same people, except for that last one).

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A good start would be ditching HTML in email. Plain text is perfectly suitable for non-marketing emails (and marketing emails are just chaff at this point anywa

by rapind 2y ago

A good start would be ditching HTML in email. Plain text is perfectly suitable for non-marketing emails (and marketing emails are just chaff at this point anyways). I’ll die on this hill.

MetaWhirledPeas 2y ago
One word deserves so much blame for the current state of the internet: marketing
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atemerev 2y ago
You can be perfectly spearphished by a plaintext email, sent by your “colleague”, mentioning some current issue at work, and asking to verify some ticket or by your “friend” mentioning a highly personal issue that only you two were supposed to know, asking you to phone someone on their behalf or by your “relative”, etc.
- rapind 2y ago
  Security is eliminating attack vectors one at a time. HTML in email is a gigantic hole. We don’t throw up our hands and say “whelp this only solves 90% of issues. Guess we don’t bother.”
xyst 2y ago
> I’ll die on this hill. Same. I found a setting in legacy outlook to force all e-mails to be in plain text. So every corporate email I reply to, converts the product owners html formatted emails into junk. Gives me a little joy that the e-mail they worked so hard on gets mangled by my outlook replies :)
IshKebab 2y ago
> A good start would be ditching HTML in email. How would that help? You can put links in plain text.
- rapind 2y ago
  It's all about attack surface and HTMLs attack surface is huge. HTML in email is strictly unnecessary. Name another popular messaging tool that allows you to craft custom HTML messages. Text, Whatsapp, social posts, Snapchat, etc. The only people who want to send HTML emails are marketers, advertisers, trackers, scammers, hackers, and that clueless manager who wants the cornflower blue background. (most of these actors are the same people, except for that last one).