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Hope people will stop send HTML-formatted emails.

• krapp 11y ago
  Given that businesses can track when (and from what IP) recipients open those emails through tracking images, that's not likely to ever happen. Although, of course, you can always choose not to open html emails as html.
  • xai3luGi 11y ago
    That is a pretty serious bug in whatever email program allows tracking images to work in email. Seems unlikely anyone would use such an email program. Which email program are you talking about?
    • TYPE_FASTER 11y ago
      If your e-mail program sends a HTTP request for an image based on an "img" tag in a HTML-formatted e-mail, it can get tracked based on the URL. Many e-mail clients will not show images from e-mail addresses that are not in your contacts list for this reason (for example, Thunderbird). They make the user click a button to make the decision to proceed with the image download an explicit action.
    • sokoloff 11y ago
      All of them that I use commonly. Outlook, Thunderbird, and Mail.App all do (though in each case, the user has some control over "download external content?", often on-click).
• dominotw 11y ago
  why?