Showing posts with the label email privacy

Are open rates useless today?

I'm sure you've heard the opinions already: Open rate tracking is absolutely useless. Open rates are a garbage metric. Open triggers attract only bots talking to other bots, retrieving an image to cache it. They're not proof of human interaction. You're an idiot if you rely on them to be accurate records of human interaction with your email messages. I mean, you're not wr…
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Yep, Proton Blocks the Pixels

Did you know? Protonmail blocks most open tracking pixels. Proton Mail is a privacy-focused, encrypted email service intended to protect users' communications from surveillance and unauthorized access. The company Proton AG was founded in 2013 by scientists from CERN and …

DuckDuckGo's duck.com email now open to all

Back in 2021 I blogged about DuckDuckGo announcing their new privacy-focused duck.com email service . Fast forward to now and it appears as though the service is now open to all . Yay?

What's ProtonMail up to?

Privacy-first mailbox provider ProtonMail looks to be getting deeper into the email privacy game. Earlier this month they purchased a company called SimpleLogin , whose focus seems to be email aliasing and forwarding; sort of like Apple's " Hide My Email " functi…

1Password gets its own ‘hide my email’ feature

"It’s like Apple’s new Hide My Email feature, but it works everywhere," according to The Verge . And it's powered by email platform Fastmail , perhaps a bit of a niche provider, but I mean that in a good way. Founded in 1999 , Fastmail hast a long history in the e…

DuckDuckGo launches new tracker-blocking duck.com email domain

It sounds a bit like HEY.com (or more like Apple's upcoming email privacy features ) but I think it will be free and perhaps an alternative for those looking to block email tracking outside of the Apple or HEY.com ecosystems. DuckDuckGo will supposedly strip out tracking c…

New settings for smart features and personalization in Gmail

Gmail just announced that they're about to offer up the ability to disable personalization of various features across their web apps. It appears to allow users to reclaim a measure of privacy by telling Google not to parse certain messages or content. Senders take note: the…

Edison Software unveils OnMail email service

Engadget says that Edison Software's new email service OnMail has  "two headline features ... 'accept sender' and anti-tracking technology." Sounds like another HEY-like email service to me, blocking tracking pixels and asking you who to allow in to the …