[denton-scratch]

How does blocking tracking pixels "mark the end of email read receipts"?

How does blocking tracking pixels mask your location, browser and OS? To do that, you have to block all resources that get loaded over HTTP. Since my mailer defaults to rendering messages as plain text, I already have the equivalent of Mail Privacy Protection. And my mailer won't send read receipts without checking with me first.

I found the breathless tone of the article and the general hyperbole annoying. And the article contains grammar mistakes that meant I had to re-read several paragraphs. It's a courtesy to readers to check your prose.

[mikewhy]

It doesn't "end read receipts", but it does end the validity of considering read receipts as a valid metric for users of Apple Mail.

By always requesting images, even if you haven't read the email, that metric is now bogus.

By loading all images through proxy servers, any metrics on location, browser, and operating system are bogus.

[denton-scratch]

Right-oh. I see, thanks.