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The people you're sending these tracking pixels to should be the final arbitrators. So are you willing to have them reply yes/no to a form that says: "Do you wish to transmit the time at which you opened this email to $marketing_company". If not, why not?


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IIRC next version of iOS is adding in automatic stripping of these when sharing. If not iOS, some other big player.


Sure, after what, twenty years of it being the default?




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