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I don't think that's really the case, is it? At least, not in any formally-specified way. Modern email clients will extract metadata for things like airline res
by mikepurvis 1y ago
I don't think that's really the case, is it? At least, not in any formally-specified way. Modern email clients will extract metadata for things like airline reservations, shipping trackers, ICS calendar invites, etc, and give you live tiles specific to that time-sensitive info, but it's very clearly supplementary and at least in GMail none of it is pretending to be part of the message itself.
- IanCal 1y agoImages are the clear thing that is typically remote - sometimes to the point of an email that’s entirely just an image, or rather a link to an image.
- mikepurvis 1y agoDoesn't GMail pre-fetch those images and then cache them for the duration of the email being in your inbox, so as to defeat tracker dots, read receipts, etc?
- TheNewsIsHere 1y agoYou can, at the very least, register an open by generating unique URIs for any remote content. I’m not sure how long Google caches it. I know Fastmail is doing the same thing now for any remote content fetched from within their web interface.
- ian-g 1y agoNarvar's tracking emails are mostly-image And on the one hand, it's cool as hell to see your email update itself to show tracking progress On the other hand, just send me a new email. It's fine, I promise.
- TheNewsIsHere 1y agoAnd if I’m ordering something of consequence, you’re damn right I want the time stamped paper trail of its movement you avowed.