Nobody in their right mind would click on a link in an email, especially insecure email. But pictures and such that the email app downloads automatically for you is a different story (of course, reasonable people configure their clients to never do that).
If a person cannot create email without sticking a picture or weird fonts into his signature - ... Sent from my test iPhone > On May 16, 2019, at 19:10, Pen Dragon <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 5:56:41 PM UTC-5, David W. Jones wrote: >> >> Yes, adding images provides great functionality for tracking and other >> privacy invasions. > > Yes, but I have a saying: "Ban plastic knifes from the school cafeteria? I do > wish [insert school principle] would realize that I can kill someone with my > car keys". The point of this saying is that anything can be used as a weapon. > And in this case, if I wished to track someone I would simply replace all the > links (e.g: facebook.com/Bob) with tracking links (e.g: > https://bit.ly/2LP4mva <-- that is a tracking link). > > I did not need HTML to add tracking links. > I do not need HTML to add pictures that will track you if you decided to view > it > > But we do need HTML to add italic, bold, or underlined. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "K-9 Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/k-9-mail/fdeb6de9-f07e-4a38-849b-fd4d66788b69%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/k-9-mail/6AA775AF-3500-4544-82EF-4EFF1946E76C%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
