Tracking peoples' email is no less of a violation of privacy.
Laymen do not understand that simply opening an email can be tracked via image loading "secret pixels". I think that makes it an open secret.
Laymen do not understand that simply opening an email can be tracked via image loading "secret pixels". I think that makes it an open secret.
The only thing a tracking pixel "takes" is the address of the computer that downloaded it and the time it was downloaded. None of that is your private information.
Let me just list a few of the things that I consider private:
* The fact that I viewed the email in any way
* The fact that the email was opened on more than one date
* What IP address is assigned to me by my service provider
* What user-agent is used by me (and what version)
* Whether or not I share my IP with other email addresses
* Bandwidth information about my network
* Latency information about my network
> None of that is your private information.
You are dead wrong on this point.
Even if you turn off images it's not always good enough: some trackers try to load any external resource they can, like sounds and fonts.
Whoa. While that doesn't surprise me, I didn't know about it. Can you demonstrate it with various providers? Gmail, for instance?