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Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
> On 7/1/24 12:02 PM, David Langford wrote:
>> EDITORIAL. Being routinely paranoid about links that don't go where
>> claimed, I was a little slow to vote in 2026 Worldcon site selection. The
>> email from the voting subcontractor ElectionBuddy Inc shows the URL as
>> 'secure.electionbuddy.com/' followed by the promised 19-character voter ID
>> -- but hovering over the link reveals it as 'go.electionbuddy.com/' plus
>> some 200 characters of alphanumerical gibberish. No doubt there are vitally
>> important security reasons for this....
> 
> This is a universal problem with mailing list services these days. They 
> include an image element just so the sender will be pinged every time 
> someone opens a message. The links all contain personalized tracking 
> information. In many cases they don't even go to the alleged 
> destination, but to a URL that may, if it feels like it, redirect you 
> there after sucking out all the personalized information, or could take 
> you somewhere else for all you know.
> 

This is why my gmail account defaults to not loading images.

Pt