fedithom, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux stay strong, mate.

ocell, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux I bet they'll still say they saw that you read their last email even if they don't have tracker data. All part of the script.

theashtonstarr, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux I get a lot of SEO and obviously scam emails. A couple that I think are real but poorly translated or AI-generated pitched ads that 1. were for casinos but "fit with the theme of our newspaper" (it didn't), 2. was sponsored content that read like an article and 3. requested that we do not identify it as an advertisement which is... absolutely messed up.

freakrho, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux some email providers are capable of removing tracking to avoid that kind of thing, i would check if that's an option

enkhiel, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux which mail client is that?

gamingonlinux, 9 months ago

@enkhiel latest thunderbird

devmcclu, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux I think you can install uBlock Origin on Thunderbird to keep that from happening lol

karolherbst, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux what a pain...

philpem, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux "I can see you've read my previous emails" ... I wouldn't have even sent the read receipts. But damn, that's some kind of annoying persistence.

inguin, 9 months ago

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gamingonlinux, 9 months ago

@inguin yeah i probably turned it on at some point, it's now off and i will approve manually from people I want it

RL_Dane, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux

How do they know? Read receipts? Pixel trackers? Ugh!

gamingonlinux, 9 months ago

@RL_Dane Pixel tracker no doubt

RL_Dane, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux

I always keep remote images off in @thunderbird and keep it in simple html mode.

If an email isn't readable in that state, I trash it.

Kiloku, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux isn't there a way to block this read tracking, too?

gamingonlinux, 9 months ago

@Kiloku probably a thunderbird plugin somewhere to do it

JoBlade, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux @Kiloku Maybe you can add a mail filter with a banned word ? But it could result in some false positive

lambic, 9 months ago

@gamingonlinux @Kiloku I use protonmail and I'm very happy they block all trackers by default.