Duck! email anti-tracker

[88V8]

The Duck has a link on my home page about a forthcoming service where they strip out trackers from incoming emails.

Might appeal to those who are concerned about privacy and cookies n'all.

Reading your email should be a private activity. You may be surprised to learn that 70% of emails contain trackers that can detect when you’ve opened a message, where you were when you opened it, and what device you were using. If that isn’t creepy enough, this email data can be used to profile you, including to target you with ads, and influence the content you see online. Ever open an email and see a related ad about it soon thereafter? Yup, blame email trackers. This data about you is also usually sent directly to third parties, most likely without your consent.

Some details here https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/?s=pr-hp

V8

[Lanark]

I generally like DuckDuck, but this feels like its veering towards the same territory as the Brave web browser.

"theres lots of bad people on the internet, so give all your tracking information to us instead - you can trust US"

"also we dont charge you anything, we make money by... oh dont worry about how that works... you can trust US!!"

Trust nobody on the internet

[Breelander]

The Duck has a link on my home page about a forthcoming service where they strip out trackers from incoming emails.

Might appeal to those who are concerned about privacy and cookies n'all.

You are aware that some email subscriptions use the (lack of) any sign that their emails are is being read to prune apparently 'dead' addresses from their mailing list?

[GrahamPlatt]

The app only runs on iOS 13 or better.

[UncleEbenezer]

Reading your email should be a private activity. You may be surprised to learn that 70% of emails contain trackers that can detect when you’ve opened a message, where you were when you opened it, and what device you were using.
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Oh dear.

That's simply nonsense if you use a mailer fit for purpose (and don't disable its standard privacy).

Accepting that 70% (I've absolutely no idea what sample it comes from), the above might better read:

[...] 70% of emails contain trackers that, if you take the trouble to disable email privacy in your settings, can detect when you’ve opened a message, where you were when you opened it, and what device you were using.

The trackers that really annoy me are personalised tracking links, that will track you when you click them and which hide the destination link. Like for example list-manage.com, annoyingly used by legitimate organisations to mail memberships.