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Web Bugs the New Norm For Businesses?

Posted by Soulskill on from the stop-or-i'll-say-stop-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What ever happened to the good old days, when underhanded email practices were only used by shady email marketing companies and spammers? Today, it seems, the mainstream corporate world has begun to employ the same tactics as spammers to track their customers' email. Jonathan Zdziarski noted in a blog entry that AT&T is using web bugs to track email sent to customers. Could this be used for nefarious purposes?"

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  1. Use Thunderbird by Compaqt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It doens't load web bugs until you tell it to.

    Fastmail.fm does the same.

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