Email Privacy: The Significance of External Images and Tracking Concerns
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Summary
The article discusses email privacy and the prevalence of external images in emails. The author notes that most email clients have a "show external images" option due to privacy concerns, as external images can be used for tracking. The article explores the reverse perspective: what emails don't include external images, suggesting this could be a way to filter out marketing emails and identify more personal or important messages.
Key quotes
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There are good reasons for this (not needing to send a copy of an image in every email on a newsletter) as well as nefarious reasons (the remote server can track where/when you load the image).
So most mail clients I've used don't load them by default for obvious privacy reasons.
This got me thinking about the reverse, though: what email do I receive that does not include external images?
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