I don't have any links for this. Yet. But plenty of people in the biz, have been very surprised this week, and a lot of them are tearing their hair out.
This has to do with the way major email providers (Google, Apple, Microsoft) are "securing your privacy".
Except they're NOT "securing your privacy". Exactly the opposite is going on.
Those of you who are internet savvy may know how the mass mailing services like MailChimp and HubSpot work. They put little magic pixels in the promotional emails, that basically "phone home" with marketing info.
Well, as of this week, Microsoft (Outlook, Hotmail, etc) is now converting all embedded HTML to attachments. But wait... check the URL, because it's not "your" attachment - it's theirs! They selectively strip certain things out of the attachment, before they give it to you.
I'll bet ten thousand million samolians, that this is being driven by Uncle Sam - cause guess what - ALL the major providers made similar changes this same week. I caught Outlook and Gmail in action, right in the middle of their changes, because I happened to be working on a press release at the time. One minute my HTML is all neat and inlined, next minute it doesn't show up at all, and finally it turns into an attachment. And during that time I get emails in inverse order and stuff like that.
This is data collection, this ain't no privacy. This is how they're going to censor us when we start talking about the evil vaxxes and stuff like that.
Think about it. How else are they going to do it? How are they going to stop you from mailing a picture of Fauci in drag, if they can't check every attachment?
This has to do with the way major email providers (Google, Apple, Microsoft) are "securing your privacy".
Except they're NOT "securing your privacy". Exactly the opposite is going on.
Those of you who are internet savvy may know how the mass mailing services like MailChimp and HubSpot work. They put little magic pixels in the promotional emails, that basically "phone home" with marketing info.
Well, as of this week, Microsoft (Outlook, Hotmail, etc) is now converting all embedded HTML to attachments. But wait... check the URL, because it's not "your" attachment - it's theirs! They selectively strip certain things out of the attachment, before they give it to you.
I'll bet ten thousand million samolians, that this is being driven by Uncle Sam - cause guess what - ALL the major providers made similar changes this same week. I caught Outlook and Gmail in action, right in the middle of their changes, because I happened to be working on a press release at the time. One minute my HTML is all neat and inlined, next minute it doesn't show up at all, and finally it turns into an attachment. And during that time I get emails in inverse order and stuff like that.
This is data collection, this ain't no privacy. This is how they're going to censor us when we start talking about the evil vaxxes and stuff like that.
Think about it. How else are they going to do it? How are they going to stop you from mailing a picture of Fauci in drag, if they can't check every attachment?