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NextDns block spy tracking in emails

It’s becoming more well known that emails have spy tracking which expose your location and when you opened the emails etc.

context: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-56071437

I also found the HEY Email service has actually shared their list of trackers they are blocking:

https://gist.github.com/dhh/360f4dc7ddbce786f8e82b97cdad9d20

Is there any chance the folks at NextDNS can use this list to give users an option to block trackers/spies in emails? 

This would be great because it will block at system level regardless of which email service one uses. 

Romain Cointepas

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    • auslander
    • 3 yrs ago
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    It would be great, but the problem is that email tracking can be completely blocked at the DNS level because of the URL path.

    For example, "email-tracking.example.com" can be blocked but "resources.example.com" can't be blocked because the email could have broken images and so on.

    Kind of like YouTube ads, they come from the same domain as the video.

    But maybe I'm wrong.

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