You forget about targetted tracking, stalkers, and the very simple reality that this is a certain way to see if people looked at the email. Handwaving this awa

You forget about targetted tracking, stalkers, and the very simple reality that this is a certain way to see if people looked at the email. Handwaving this away because "nobody will do this" is in the same family of issues as "I have nothing to hide" or "what can they really do with my data?" > you can't expect people to fix everything, especially for fairly minor issues like this. The feature is called "Load Remote Content". Turning that off should have predictable consequences. The fact that it doesn't do what people would rightly assume it should do is not a "fairly minor issue". People who blindly accept problems, who accept a lack of concern about privacy, both as a right and as a preference, who handwave away poor behavior aren't helping anyone. Tech companies rarely DTRT on their own, so people need to hold their feet to the fire. Those companies don't need apologists.