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I just heard of DidTheyReadIt.com Auto-Tracker v1.0
Is Ghostery protecting me from trackers in my Yahoo email account?
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1Not necessary — Yahoo! Mail can do this all by itself.
If you see
you're safe (unless you click Show Images, which is tantamount to inviting a vampire to come into your home).
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If you turn off graphics in your email, you won't be able to read your mail. Almost everything is graphics now.
DidTheyReadIt is a web tracker. The consumer has no way to block this type of intrusion unless they use tools like Ghostery.
DTRI not only gets a reply from the web tracker indicating that you read the email, but also sends back private information about you, like where you are when you read it. I lump that kind of behavior in with stalking.
We NEED Ghostery to defend us from these types of web trackers just like the web trackers that are embedded in other web pages.-
I guess that depends a lot on the nature of your messages. Personal correspondence isn't likely to have a problem, since images would usually accompany the text and not be hosted on a third party server. There are exceptions, of course, such as Gmail emoji.
The popular "Pile of Poo" is part of the Unicode 6.0 standard, released in October 2010. Apple's OS X Lion and Mountain Lion include font support for code point U+1F4A9, but few other desktop environments do.
If your inbox is full of junk mail (er, "daily deals" or "group deals"), then those may have a lot of remote images, but their senders are unlikely to use DidTheyReadIt. The "show images only from my contacts" setting should handle this use case.
Are you receiving messages containing DTRI tracking? Show us examples, since they seem to hide behind innocent-looking names (such as e-mail-servers.com and xpostmail.com). (BTW, confimax.com looks eerily similar.) Ghostery has better coverage of conversion trackers, since they have a public component. We have considerably less firsthand knowledge about confirmation trackers.
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