Broken image link from Citi cards
m-schmitt opened this issue · 5 comments
I sent in an email from the NTB store card which isn't loading the images, using 0.6.5.
Had a look at your email. It's working as intended. The promo images in that email are tracked and have unique identifiers including your first name encoded in the image URL--yikes. But I should ask: did you want it to load those images?
Maybe a good workaround is #138 but I agree that MailTrackerBlocker should be simple to use as its always been. I'll reverse that rule for now until I think of a more elegant solution.
But I wonder how Monterey's Mail Privacy Protection would handle it?
If a large base of mail-tracker-blockers allows this kind of tracking to slip through, it would encourage the companies to use this method. On the other hand, if a large base of mail-tracker-blockers doesn't permit this, then the companies would know they can't use this method.
Monterey Mail Protection loads all images through a proxy so any data points gleaned from the reader's IP address is unreliable to the marketer. I don't think MailTrackerBlocker itself has enough of a user base to steer marketers away from image-based tracking. But Apple may have enough users starting to use this function as a deterrent (DHH has a good piece about this point).
Ah, I was confusing the service provided by Mail Privacy Protection with iCloud+ Private Relay; for some reason I was thinking that MPP just blocks the same way as MailTrackerBlocker, and to get the mail image proxy you had to have iCloud+.
Image proxies such as MPP, and what's provided by Hey and Fastmail, don't break images, so there wouldn't be that kind of pressure to steer marketers away from using it. The worst that can happen is useless tracking data for the recipients behind the proxy.
Let's avoid breaking key email images for now. Going to revert that rule in that email for next release