• @jaybone
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    22 hours ago

    This is why every single email client for the past 2+ decades blocks external images? This didn’t occur to the AI geniuses?

    • Eager Eagle
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      32 hours ago

      IME they usually proxy and/or prefetch images for caching instead of blocking them. Only spam content is blocked by default.

      • fmstrat
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        21 hour ago

        This wouldn’t help, would it? How would you prefetch and cache:

        site.com/base64u-to-niceware-word-array/image.gif

        ? It would look like a normal image URL in any article, but actually represent data.

        Note: “niceware” is a way to convert binary or text data into a set of words like “cow-heart-running-something-etc”.