This is just email tech playing catch up with instant messaging, twitter, and other communication tools.
At least with email I can block images and prevent the tracking from occurring. I can't do that with facebook or twitter.
At least with email I can block images and prevent the tracking from occurring. I can't do that with facebook or twitter.
> Superhuman doesn’t even let its own customers turn images off. So merely by using Superhuman, you are vulnerable to the exact same spying that Superhuman enables you to do to others.
A Superhuman investor, who does not disclose his interest in the company, pops in to say it's the recipient's responsibility to defend their own privacy, using a method (turning images off) that Superhuman's own product makes impossible for its users.
Wow.
(1) Recipient generally doesn't know they're being tracked. Even in the argument that 'email is catching up to IM', the recipient always knows that read receipts are turned on -- because it is built into the UI.
(2) Recipient doesn't know they're being tracked multiple times, with multiple locations. Again, in that same argument, messenger doesn't tell you the number of times I viewed your message and where I am when I viewed it.
BTW -- you can absolutely turn off read receipts across both Facebook and Twitter.
See "Email clients have done this for years. Even Apple does this with iMessage"