I am fine swimming upstream. I browse with Javascript disabled, I am not on any social networking sites, I do not have a smartphone, etc. I do not get too str

I am fine swimming upstream. I browse with Javascript disabled, I am not on any social networking sites, I do not have a smartphone, etc. I do not get too stressed about these things as long as I can keep doing things my way. Ultimately, I think filtering is going to win. The problems with HTML mail are going to become more severe, not less. Phishing attacks are becoming more and more of a problem, and HTML mail makes phishing attacks much easier to carry out. The sort of tracking that Fab used to detect who was actually reading their mail could just as easily be used to identify potential targets for scams, or in a coordinated attack of some kind. We cannot continue to leave ourselves open to such attacks -- eventually we are going to have to start blocking HTML mail or at least blocking external images/etc. Filters that are good enough to reduce clutter are already starting to be deployed e.g. GMail's Priority Inbox, and GMail already blocks external images by default.