• jaybone@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      This is why every single email client for the past 2+ decades blocks external images? This didn’t occur to the AI geniuses?

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        IME they usually proxy and/or prefetch images for caching instead of blocking them. Only spam content is blocked by default.

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            19 minutes ago

            If it’s prefetched, it doesn’t matter that you reveal that it’s been “opened,” as that doesn’t reveal anything about the recipient’s behavior, other than that the email was processed by the email server.