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by GeekyBear 39 days ago
The email client I use doesn't display images in an email until I explicitly ask it to.
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marysol5 39 days ago
Which came as a reaction to "tracking cookies" and the like being added to e-mail.

It was a reaction, not a proactive response.

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fc417fc802 39 days ago
Rather than tracking cookies it's a form of delivery confirmation via unique url. One of the mitigations is to configure the server to unconditionally fetch (and retain) all embedded media immediately on receipt of the message. Which makes the BigTech example all the more egregious.
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thrownthatway 39 days ago
That has no bearing on the points made in the comment you replied to.
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