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I've seen this expression here a few times and I don't mean to single you out, but arghhh! The cos in cosplay stands for costume. Roleplay! Unless you are putting on a literal white hat I suppose, that would be cool.
It's figurative? The point is that they're pretending to be something they're not.
For anyone's benefit: this is not what "endemic" means.
I'd say tracking pixels are regularly found in the area of email.
I can't think of any email clients that automatically download external images by default. The article seems to be over-blowing the issue a bit.
GMail displays them. It uses a proxy for downloading, but I don't think that matters unless they're preloading all images unconditionally upon server-side receipt of the message. Apple's macOS Mail.app client displays external images by default, as does their iOS app.
If you're running a mail newsletter, this tracking is pretty important. You're supposed to stop sending emails to someone who's not interacting with them, or you get an extra point towards being flagged as spam. Since people are already weary of clicking the unsubscribe link and instead casually mark everything as spam, every little bit towards keeping your reputation counts. It's a damned if you do, damned if you do…
Hey.com is a good solution for automatically stopping emails that do this
If you're running a mail newsletter, this tracking is pretty important. You're supposed to stop sending emails to someone who's not interacting with them, or you get an extra point towards being flagged as spam. Since people are already weary of clicking the unsubscribe link and instead casually mark everything as spam, every little bit towards keeping your reputation counts. It's a damned if you do, damned if you do…
And also because of this, if you're blocking tracking pixels in a privacy conscious way you often get removed from the mailing list without any notice, which is very frustrating. Or you get one of those mail saying "We are removing you from the list because you don't read our newsletter", often without offering any other confirmation signal. Basically they says "Let us track you or you are out of this list". And this…
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And also because of this, if you're blocking tracking pixels in a privacy conscious way you often get removed from the mailing list without any notice, which is very frustrating. Or you get one of those mail saying "We are removing you from the list because you don't read our newsletter", often without offering any other confirmation signal. Basically they says "Let us track you or you are out of this list". And this…
> you often get removed from the mailing list without any notice Seems like nothing of value would be lost? > They don't actually care if you read or enjoy their content, you are either one of the users who increase their opening and click rates, or you're a useless burden to them. Confirms that indeed nothing of value would be lost. It seems like a win-win situation, spam-letters you wouldn't want to read anyway eve…
That would depend on the newsletter. Some newsletter provide lots of value for those wanting to keep up to date with minimum effort.
It could also be a newsletter you need to monitor for work purposes.
> They don't actually care if you read or enjoy their content, you are either one of the users who increase their opening and click rates, or you're a useless burden to them.
No they care more that you don't reduce their deliverability rate and that is affected by email service providers deciding if you're not opening the email you're not interested, not reading and enjoying the content and therefore and don't want the content.
This goes beyond nefarious marketing purposes - I know lots of people who have started to use open trackers in their personal emails! In a certain way, for people who are now very accustomed to read receipts, it's a way of adding a modern feature to a legacy product.
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Yes, if that newsletter is using best practices. The recommended period is 90 days I believe, but you can get send an email asking if you're still interested (and in that email, there will be a link you should click if you want to stay subscribed). You may have had this happen before and probably thought that was just a scammy way to get you to click a link, but in fact it's completely legit.
> Yes, if that newsletter is using best practices. Clearly that would be worst possible practices.