Sometimes something is so common that you assume it’s worth using, in this case, HTML email.

I’m glad when something comes along that causes me to question these default behaviors, especially when they are harmful.

useplaintext.email/

I’ll be configuring all my mail clients to use plaintext by default, and I’m going to make preposter.us do a better job with plaintext as well.

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@vcrkhl@mastodon.social @requiem it's also worth noting that there is now urlcanary.com, which makes it trivially easy for anyone to track when a recipient reads their mail just by embedding a unique URL in an HTML msg.

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