• jet@hackertalks.com
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    11 months ago

    Slorp has detected that you haven’t opened our emails for a long time. It’s very important to slorp that you keep your contact information updated. Please login Here to verify your slorp account details.

    – the fact slorp gets upset that I have tracking pixels disabled so they can’t monitor my email usage is one big reason they can go slorp themselves

    • Thomrade@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Hold up, tracking pixels? What the fuck is that and how do I disable it.

      • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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        13 days ago

        When you load an image from a remote server it leaves an item in their activity logs (when you download the image, the IP address, your email client’s user agent, and a few other details).

        If you make the URLs for the images unique, you can now attach an email send to a specific person reading that email, and you can see where and when they read it.

        It’s been a security risk for a long long long time and only recently have email clients started dealing with it. Some will download the images remotely or proxy them for you, but I recommend disabling remote images in emails altogether.