• Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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    1 month ago

    Personally speaking, I’ve never been a fan of this method because to the hosting web server it was still fetched. That might confirm that an email address exists or (mistakenly) confirm that the user did in fact follow the link (or load the resource).

    I have ad and tracking blocked like crazy (using DNS) so I can’t follow most links in emails anyway. External assets aren’t loaded either, but this method basically circumvents that (which I hate).

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      an email for a receiver that doesn’t exist, more often than not, goes back to the sender after e.g. 72h. That’s by design.