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There’s a big difference between a tracking pixel in a bulk marketing email and read-receipting direct, personal or business emails.

Also this so-called “manufactured outrage” was started by a product VP at InVision. The call is coming from inside the house on this one.

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There's less of a clear line between bulk and "business" email than you might think, particularly prospecting email. Looks 1:1 in terms of content, but is sent in bulk and has tracking pixels.

But other than that, I agree. From a privacy perspective, there's some advantage to just being one row of millions in the marketing database; it's the aggregate behavior that they care about, not individual.

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