> There is no foolproof way to load any remote content without possibly exposing email open information.
Also, this is false. You could download all remote content at time of delivery. That way it would be impossible for a sender to differentiate between an email simply being delivered and one being read.
Even more worrying, I just went into the settings and toggled on "Block remote content" and then sent my self another test through https://www.emailprivacytester.com, and it still triggered a remote content load when I viewed the email.
It's saying that the images were blocked, but that didn't stop them being fetched. Entirely defeating the point of the setting.
My point was that defaults matter, and your default is not privacy preserving. Yet you claim to be a "privacy first" service. There are many email clients which do not download remote content by default. I would argue that they preserve privacy better than Skiff does.
Yes - privacy focused mail providers offer this as an option but do not enable it by default. Mainstream mail providers do not even have it as an option.
Are you joking? I've never even come across an email client or provider that doesn't have options to toggle loading remote images. What mainstream mail providers don't have this option?
The only difference between your option and other providers are:
1. Yours doesn't even work. It still loads the remote images. It just doesn't display them
2. Yours has the wrong default.
Your "block remote content" option is even worse than just forcibly loading remote images and not even having the option in the first place, because it tricks the user into thinking that it will preserve privacy, like it does for other providers, but it does not preserve privacy in your case as it still loads the images.
No, I'm not joking. We do have this option, and it's consistent with the defaults across private mail providers. Still waiting for your list of the ones that don't load images by default.
It does not load the images. That's just patently false disinfo.
Also, this is false. You could download all remote content at time of delivery. That way it would be impossible for a sender to differentiate between an email simply being delivered and one being read.