> Email inbox providers would have to incur 100% of the cost in a very coordinated way
Yes, and in the long term, providers like google for example, will probably end up saving a tonne of money by not having to proxy all these tracking resources.
> and then hope that doing so bullies the senders into turning off their open tracking. It’s not going to happen.
It's got nothing to do with bullying. Their "open tracking" would immediately become useless. The sender can leave it turned on, collecting no information, and using their bandwidth. Or they can turn it off, as they should never have been doing it in the first place.
> Major inbox providers like open tracking because
I don't care what mail inbox providers like. We shouldn't be taking that into consideration. Perhaps the postoffice would like it if people who put letters through my letterbox knew how much time I spent reading those letters. I don't care. They're not owed that information. Luckily they haven't found a way to abuse the postal mail system in the same way that email senders have.
I don't know how we get the big email providers to get rid of this plague of open tracking. Perhaps they will take it upon themselves at some point, due to pressure from their users, who want privacy. Gmail's already most of the way there now they've set up their proxying system.
Yes, and in the long term, providers like google for example, will probably end up saving a tonne of money by not having to proxy all these tracking resources.
> and then hope that doing so bullies the senders into turning off their open tracking. It’s not going to happen.
It's got nothing to do with bullying. Their "open tracking" would immediately become useless. The sender can leave it turned on, collecting no information, and using their bandwidth. Or they can turn it off, as they should never have been doing it in the first place.
> Major inbox providers like open tracking because
I don't care what mail inbox providers like. We shouldn't be taking that into consideration. Perhaps the postoffice would like it if people who put letters through my letterbox knew how much time I spent reading those letters. I don't care. They're not owed that information. Luckily they haven't found a way to abuse the postal mail system in the same way that email senders have.
I don't know how we get the big email providers to get rid of this plague of open tracking. Perhaps they will take it upon themselves at some point, due to pressure from their users, who want privacy. Gmail's already most of the way there now they've set up their proxying system.