Gregory's ServerI get *a lot* of companies wanting me to put adverts up. My answer is always no.
I stopped replying but now they all just do this...
"I can see that you have read my previous emails"
Ah yes, that's exactly how to win me over isn't it.
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@gamingonlinux @Kiloku I use protonmail and I'm very happy they block all trackers by default. @gamingonlinux @Kiloku Maybe you can add a mail filter with a banned word ? But it could result in some false positive  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.  @gamingonlinux I'm using GMail these days (GSuite hosting my email), there's an option in my admin dashboard that explicitly says "GMail will ask users before any read receipt is sent". @thunderbird ALSO handles this. See attached screenshots.  @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.  @gamingonlinux I think you can install uBlock Origin on Thunderbird to keep that from happening lol @gamingonlinux some email providers are capable of removing tracking to avoid that kind of thing, i would check if that's an option @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. @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. |
@gamingonlinux isn't there a way to block this read tracking, too?