On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:06:24 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)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.
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.
Phew, safe.
Thanks.