GitLab is still a commercial entity, and looking for buyers I understand. Plex was once open source, but guess why everyone recommends Jellyfin now.
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Big fan, but if you haven't tried Obtainium as a client, give it a go. Can manage installs from F-Droid, GitHub releases, and more.
Often times this language is used to drum up funding for exactly these types of things.
If you're still posting on Reddit or Twitter, and it's not for a niche community, please don't come here.
Oooo healthy online discourse. Where's my popcorn...
This post isn't about email open rates, it's about data exfiltration. But for email speficially, show me major providers that prefetch by default.
If by prefetch you mean the server grabs the images ahead of time vs the client, this does not happen, at least on amy major modern platform that I know of. They will cache once a client has opened, but unique URLs per recipient are how they track the open rates.
Server or client, every supposed prefetch would be unique. If I trick an LLM client into grabbing:
site.com/random-words-of-data/image.gif
Then:
site.com/more-random-data/image.gif
Those are two separate images to the cache engine. As the data refreshes, the URL changes, forcing a new grab each time.
For email, marketers do this by using a unique image URL for every recipient.
But the path changes with every new data element. It's never the same, so every "prefetch" is a whole new image in the system's eyes.
This wouldn't help, would it? How would you prefetch and cache:
site.com/base64u-to-niceware-word-array/image.gif
? It would look like a normal image URL in any article, but actually represent data.
Note: "niceware" is a way to convert binary or text data into a set of words like "cow-heart-running-something-etc".
Yea, so many other occurrences I wish had gone to court, this one not only doesn't stand a chance, but will set bad precedence.