i’m getting a lot of emails from my bank and other services that make me aware that they use tracking pixels in emails. apparently they are obliged by the privacy regulator that is enforcing a recent EU directive. i didn’t even know that i was sending ip and client info simply by reading my emails in thunderbird or k9 on my mobile. is there a way to deactivate these? and is there a risk that by doing so the bank thinks the email is compromised or non existant. its incredibile to see how sophisticated data hoovering technology has become. the internet has become a real mess …


I think the best way is to disable loading of external content in your email client, but I’m not 100% sure.
Damn me for clicking on “load external content” then. I thought i wasjust downloading images … ignorance is humanities biggest problem and surely mine …
That’s all tracking pixels are, and any image can be used to track you.
But from now on they’ll get shit 💪