Capital One uses email tracking to 'verify' your email address. I get a yearly email from them saying I've not read any of their email but I disable downloading images. These technical hacks for business purposes are lousy.
Email tracking pixel support
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Re: Email tracking pixel support
#12Mirror because it's obvious parody, which is protected, also because anarchy: http://archive.is/zeGxt You can also just clone the repo and checkout something from the history.
That was the most amusing part of the article. They sent Smelvetica a takedown notice and were satisfied by a quick "git rm ". You can still get at the target of the takedown notice through the web interface; https://github.com/tholman/smelvetica/blob/7186794b56c365e6f...
Re: Email tracking pixel support
#13Mirror because it's obvious parody, which is protected, also because anarchy: http://archive.is/zeGxt You can also just clone the repo and checkout something from the history.
ironic because archive.is has insidious tracking pixels.
*.pixel.archive.is
Re: Email tracking pixel support
#14This is funny and wonderful.
However, if I can take the joke way too seriously for just a second:
Doing this with emails will just cause your target to think something is messed up on your end. I'm not sure it would have the desired effect unless a lot of people were doing it.
In theory, a better strategy would be to inject the font into an environment where users are primed to assume that if something goes wrong it's the environment's fault, not the publisher. For example, a website.
I wonder how hard it would be to get an Open recreation of Smelvetica onto some kind of Smelvetica-specific CDN that everyone could share, and then to get that CDN url added to EasyList?[0]
Would anyone be likely to install an adblocker over that, or is it more likely that they would just blame the website?
Re: Email tracking pixel support
#15If you want to Smelvetisize other fonts, I wrote up a quick script and how-to do it with python.
https://readevalprint.com/Schmelvetica.html