[MlMt] one pixel tracker images

Eric Sharakan esharakan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 12:03:04 EDT 2021


I seem to remember Benny saying something similar about MM being unable 
to tell ahead of time and thus unable to block them automatically.

-Eric

On 18 Mar 2021, at 11:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> It can't tell if it's a 1x1 image until after it's downloaded, by 
> which
> time the damage has been done. Disabling all images is the safest;
> disabling known trackers is second-best.
>
> On 18 Mar 2021, at 0:06, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>> Version 1.14 (5757) on big sur
>>
>> when i say view html, i get
>>
>>     Images with a pixel size of 1 by 1 have been downloaded (2)
>>
>> i would prefer to disable 1 pixel tracker pseudo-images.  clue bat,
>> please
>>
>> randy
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