Block email trackers at @e.email servers

huuhaa · April 3, 2022, 11:32am

Block trackers from emails arriving to @e.email accounts with option to disable this feature.

It would be nice if /e/ would announce similar tracking block feature at serverside of e.email that are available with protonmail and with duckduckgo email protection for example.

Why? Well I think question should rather be why not, even when there are possibilities to anonymize email using ddg or dimple login… There still should be option ti block those trackers at e.email.

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smu44 · April 4, 2022, 6:18am

In Rainloop settings (https://ecloud.global/apps/rainloop/), you can disable automatic external images download/display.

huuhaa · April 4, 2022, 6:36am

But that’s not what I suggested. It’s really handy to not have to disable those and there’s little text at upper part of email like:

[
Tracking Protection removed x trackers from Mailgun →
]

At least I miss to see why implementing this would be bad idea.

Edit: Just saying in case this won’t be taken as “no need, issue solved”. It’s good to have that option too, but since it doesn’t solve this… I’m leqving this comment.

smu44 · April 4, 2022, 3:49pm

Didn’t reach my mind

I took a look at official Rainloop plugins, unfortunately none available to this purpose …

huuhaa · April 4, 2022, 5:01pm

No wonder when you cut quotes to revert original meaning

I was hoping /e/ team could do more than rely on ready made plugins.

I assume duckduckgo email protection relies duckduckgo tracker radar. I’m not a coder, so no point for me to check that + not sure does tracker radar contain also email trackers, but on the other hand why wouldn’t it.

So basicly I hope /e/ team could create a plugin which is using ddg tracker radar and blocks email trackers.

But if feature request / suggestions is limited to wish to enable some ready made plugins and using some feature which isn’t what original suggestion is, then…

I think it is worthless for me to continue, there will be no change.

huuhaa · April 5, 2022, 7:18am

Well since there wasn’t so much agreement this would be good to have feature, at least in this community… I decided to suggest this at more propriate place:

github.com/RainLoop/rainloop-webmail

[Feature Request] Tracker Protection: Add option (plugin?) for blocking email trackers

opened 07:11AM - 05 Apr 22 UTC

huuhaa

**Block email trackers (feature request):** I wish you could implement tracke…r blocking feature into RainLoop, similar the ones used at Protonmail and DuckDuckGo Mail Protection. **Expected behavior** When tracker blocking enabled, user could see email in html format normally, including pictures but at the upper part of email there would be text line like: Tracking Protection blocked 2 trackers → / Tracker Protection blocked trackers from Mailgun → / Tracker Protection didn't detect any trackers. Those are like 3 different example of the line (example from ddg mail protection), arrow at the end includes link to email protection report in that example case. **Possible way to achive this:** I would be surprosed if DuckDuckGo Mail Protection wouln't rely on DDG Tracker Radar on their solution, maybe possible plugin could rely on same? (I'm not a coder myself though): Tracker Radar itself can be found at: https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-radar General link about Tracker Radar: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-tracker-radar/ Vivaldi Browser seems to use Tracker Radar data as blocklist, like in here (just as an example): https://downloads.vivaldi.com/ddg/tds-v2-current.json So I assume there would be way to use Tracker Radar to achieve this functionality. Also that DDG Tracker Radar was just one of possible suggestion to do this. ProtonMail uses their own way and there are probably other suitable lists too available. **Benefits of this:** Well it's good that there's option to choose not to load images etc. but in my opinion there should also be option for this function described at this suggestion. It would allow users to see original layout of emails ( at least selected ones, even if one selects default as do not load images etc., then when selecting to load those would be loaded with Tracker Protection on ) while still having protection against trackers. Not to mention having that protection on even when every mail would load images etc.