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 (DIR) Post #AadPVbVi68ItbLUsi0 by liam@shitposter.club
       2023-10-10T17:57:59.006971Z
       
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       Idea for an e-mail provider to destroy the view images = read receipt cancerFirst, the e-mail provider [algorithmically] designates 80%+ of unallocated addresses as honeypots. These honeypots will “accept” any mail sent to them, then at some point over the next [poisson process?] load all the remote images as if* they’d been opened.Once this has been running for about a year, you give existing users the option to **opt in** to pre-loading images on e-mails sent to them, advertised as having trifold benefits of (a) Confounding these neo-read-receipt abusers, (b) loading images faster when you actually read them, and (c) allowing you to keep the entirety of very old newsletters, for archival purposes. Of course, this feature itself is only rolled out to individual users in a very slow drip, and will always remain opt-in.
       
 (DIR) Post #AadPhBkPi2gjArtlJI by liam@shitposter.club
       2023-10-10T18:00:05.107868Z
       
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       which reminds me—is there any protocol out there for an e-mail host to offer  to an IMAP client its ability to proxy remote embedded images?
       
 (DIR) Post #AadPqzswfUm9HOZA1I by Moon@shitposter.club
       2023-10-10T18:01:49.022515Z
       
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       @liam that would be non-standard and I've never heard of it. the email could be html with embedded data URIs but that would require the sender to do something.
       
 (DIR) Post #AadSfprJuAPirRAvSK by liam@shitposter.club
       2023-10-10T18:33:27.480775Z
       
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       yeah, obviously if rewriting were allowed you could just rewrite the `href`s in the e-mail itself…
       
 (DIR) Post #AadSj8AsGVGiX9tQG0 by Moon@shitposter.club
       2023-10-10T18:34:01.626629Z
       
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       @liam I suppose a server could do that in the background if there wasn't javascript
       
 (DIR) Post #AadSutLNENpI0pPbKi by liam@shitposter.club
       2023-10-10T18:36:10.694257Z
       
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       @Moon the server could do it, but I was wondering if there's any IMAP extension out there to *tell* clients that you've done it so they don't go exposing their IP, and the server doesn't have to do content mangling