Re: email tracking, is it possible in fedora mail clients?

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On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 08:31 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> Hi,
> I just saw this article via Pocket in firefox,
> https://www.vox.com/recode/23332959/email-tracking-privacy
> and I wondered if that is an issue in fedora.  It seems that in order
> for such tracking to work, it has to have the cooperation of the
> operating system, or at least the mail client.  And, I would think
> that
> open source mail clients don't allow that.  Am I right?

AFAIK it's not an operating system issue as such.

Turn off read receipts in your MUA (I've always argued that they are
basically useless).

Also, don't open HTML mail but use the plaintext alternative where
available. If you can't avoid HTML mail, many mail services have some
tracking protection built-in.

poc
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