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Tracking pixels are routine in emails, not just websites, so the article is incomplete as it does not address how to guard against those.


The solution to turn off "load images" in the web email clients.

One side effect is that Capital One thinks that it has the wrong email address for me:

  "You haven’t opened an email from us lately, 
  so we’re checking in to make sure your contact
  information is up to date."
It keeps sending me that every month or two, which is kinda annoying.


> which is kinda annoying

Set up an email filter based on the Subject line to trash them.


Disable HTML in fact.

Those are my favorite kind of spams.


Don't load images, or use GMail which loads images through a proxy.


I was pleased to see that Fastmail is also an option[1].

1. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-keeps-you-safe-from-s...


ProtonMail and Tuta both block images by default.


This is probably the default for all clients now. Even Outlook blocks images.




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