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HTML email tracks you

With the ever-increasing use of HTML email, senders can embed images into their emails. These can then be loaded from a remote web server or attached directly to email. When images are remote, they can be tagged by the sender to know who, exactly, opened the message and when. Giving them, in effect, a return-receipt capability that can't be disabled by the recipient. Here's a safe demonstration of this concept. Luckily, I loathe HTML email so I have it disabled anyway.

Linked on 9th December 2000 Details

More preposterous ideas from the Euro-buffoons: ta...

More preposterous ideas from the Euro-buffoons: taxing email and text messages.

Linked on 27th May 2006 Details

Weebl & bob read their email....

Weebl & bob read their email.

Linked on 10th October 2006 Details

How good are those stocks that spammers attempt to...

How good are those stocks that spammers attempt to sell to you? See for yourself.

Linked on 28th November 2006 Details

Head, meet sand

Thanks to all the people who’ve been endlessly forwarding me an invitation to switch off the lights tomorrow for a few minutes before 8pm in order to “create global awareness of the climate and energy situation”. You can stop now, really.

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Posted on 31st January 2007 Details

Email confusion....

Email confusion.

Linked on 30th June 2008 Details

The Rise and Fall of the earliest “dot-com”. I fee...

The Rise and Fall of the earliest “dot-com”. I feel old, I actually remember ClariNet.

Linked on 9th June 2009 Details

The Rise and Fall of the earliest dot-com

The Rise and Fall of the earliest "dot-com". I feel old, I actually remember ClariNet.

Linked on 9th June 2009 Details

Electronic devices: sending a message that you don...

Electronic devices: sending a message that you don’t care.

Linked on 16th May 2010 Details

Electronic devices: sending a message that you don't care.

Electronic devices: sending a message that you don't care.

Linked on 16th May 2010 Details

Superhuman is Spying on You

In this article, Mike Davidson criticises the classic "Build first, ask questions later" methods of Silicon Valley. Specifically here, the much-hyped Superhuman email client that lets you track opens.

If you do anything, make sure you use an email client that disables images by default. That should prevent most of these unethical invasions of privacy.

Linked on 3rd July 2019 Details

Privacy is a collective concern

When we tell companies about ourselves, we give away details about others, too. This annoys me so much I've often been tempted to block communication with people on gmail as I don't want google hoovering up my personal discussions and relationships.

Unfortunately, it would probably kill a good third of my email, much of it work-related, so I have to live with my privacy being invaded because others don't care or don't understand.

Linked on 13th November 2019 Details