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The biggest missing feature on Masked Email by Fastmail is they don't remove trackers, as far as I know. Masked Email gives you more privacy (the identity behi
by juriansluiman 5y ago
The biggest missing feature on Masked Email by Fastmail is they don't remove trackers, as far as I know.
Masked Email gives you more privacy (the identity behind the receiver is unknown) and with data breaches, there's is no login data leaked.
Duck's Email Protection does also remove trackers from the forwarded mails. So senders can't trace back whether you have opened the mail. I hope they also remove click trackers, but I am unsure how they would implement that technology with the referral codes in the URL.
- czottmann 5y agoFastmail proxies all images (when using their webmail interface), and AFAIK remove tracking images. https://fastmail.blog/privacy-security/fastmail-keeps-you-safe-from-spy-pixels/ https://fastmail.blog/privacy-security/fastmail-keeps-you-sa...
- andreareina 5y agoReads are still tracked by virtue of the fact that the image was requested. Proxies do obscure the requester's IP address, but not much else.
- 0xCMP 5y agothey also typically obscure when it was read. Google at least pulls the image right away iiuc. If not then it really should. most they should know is it was delivered. which is significantly better than nothing.
- potas 5y agoIn Fastmail you can choose to only display images for emails that are in your contacts. Proxy is just another layer of protection for when you actually want to see the images.