What it means for the consumer: (1) more privacy, (2) less sale of personal information, (3) less intrusion into our lives. What it doesn't mean for the consumer, which the poster appears to be implying: higher prices - because, in most cases, the seller is charging what the market will bear, not just cost recouplment, and will simply take the cost savings in advertising and put them into higher profits and bonuses for the senior executives.
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'Trackbuster' Service Aims to Strip Tracking Information From Incoming Emails
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haha. that would be hilarious.
that's not true. I tried it and it tagged a lot of important emails as being tracked as well. ie: PayPal, credit card statements, etc
hmm, could you share their response?
Super helpful so far. I offered to help either online or via phone and they called a few minutes later. We reviewed how my Gmail is configured and they said that it may be related to a conflict with another application (Unroll.me) or may be unrelated. He asked for some screenshots which I sent, and he walked me through moving my emails back to my Inbox. I will update as I know more, but for what it's worth they seem very eager to help and to make sure that their product performs as expected.
I work for a school that uses a popular e-mail marketing tool to stay in touch with "Friends" of the school and alumni. We don't do any kind of advanced "conversion tracking" or anything like that. Yes, sometimes we send email asking for donations. But most of the time we're providing content people have signed up for—newsletters, etc. We're a small school on a small budget. Open and click information is helpful to us—it's the only feasible way for us to track what works well, what doesn't, how people are engaged.
I can appreciate that and I'm sure that most people won't change their habits or even be aware that they can be tracked through email, so you'll still get the feedback that you need. But I don't agree with it that it's a good reason to not allow people the option to avoid being tracked. I don't set up a camera in your house to see which pieces of mail you open, regardless of how valuable that information may be.
I don't think setting up a camera in someone's house is equivalent to tracking whether they open and click mail that they opt into receiving. While I "get it" from the consumer perspective, on the other hand U.S. law forbids sending unsolicited corporate email. So the overwhelming majority of email that "tracks" people is opt-in, and I don't think it's unreasonable to track basic stats like that.
Now, deeper kinds of tracking, and 3rd-party data collection is completely unjustifiable. In email or on the web, in my opinion.
As an early Apple dot mac account holder, I use Mac Mail pretty much exclusively.
This is why i use Little Snitch. During the course of a week my Mail client makes more outbound connections than the entire country of Rhodesia.
Some of us like a little less advertising in our email, nothing wrong with his comment. I have been shocked at how much faster a service like Fastmail is than Gmail and there are no ads. Nothing wrong with communicating that preference.
Aside from not allowing remote images to load automatically is there anything else that can be disabled in Mail?
Software devised and built by the NSA or others. I feel like all pro privacy software is a double edged sword and giving access to your emails within the already exposed arena of gmail seems like asking to be spied on.
I think this a great product that can take us a long way towards attaining the privacy that we deserve while sending and receiving emails. I love using Google Chrome most of the time and this comes as an advantage to me. This is because we all deserve privacy from companies and marketers who are able to monitor information about what is going on in our emails.