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   CaptainMalu (captainmalu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 20:02:00 JST CaptainMalu

   • Neil Brown

   @neil so you wouldn't also see >90% of the mail. Especially now pictures of products.

   So receiving such an email in the first place would be pointless.

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     Marcus Bointon (synchro@phpc.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 20:01:59 JST Marcus Bointon

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     • Neil Brown

     @neil @CaptainMalu all major email apps default to not showing images for this reason. I’ve also had the ICO describe this tracking as “industry standard” after we complained about them doing unconsented tracking in their own emails

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     CaptainMalu (captainmalu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 20:03:11 JST CaptainMalu

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     • Neil Brown
     • Marcus Bointon

     @Synchro @neil another example for why the term "industry standard" actually means garbage.
     Just because a lot of companies are doing one thing or using one thing doesn't mean it's good or even allowed.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Marcus Bointon (synchro@phpc.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 20:03:11 JST Marcus Bointon

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     • Neil Brown

     @CaptainMalu @neil all our privacy efforts are continuously undermined by a regulator that not only fails to enforce, but commits the very offences it’s meant to prevent