On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 09:21 -0700, stan via users wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:06:24 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 08:31 -0700, stan via users wrote:
Hi, I just saw this article via Pocket in firefox, https://www.vox.com/recode/23332959/email-tracking-privacy and I wondered if that is an issue in fedora. It seems that in order for such tracking to work, it has to have the cooperation of the operating system, or at least the mail client. And, I would think that open source mail clients don't allow that. Am I right?
AFAIK it's not an operating system issue as such.
Turn off read receipts in your MUA (I've always argued that they are basically useless).
I don't find any switch to do that in claws-mail, so maybe it doesn't have the ability to send return receipts.
Sounds likely. Evolution does support them but I turn them off.
Also, don't open HTML mail but use the plaintext alternative where available. If you can't avoid HTML mail, many mail services have some tracking protection built-in.
claws converts all messages to text, and it takes a plugin to view html mail. So, that probably meets this requirement.
Sure.
Phew, safe.
Thanks.
Cheers
poc