Danger email, they may know your activity: the threat is increasingly widespread

Every web user’s email can be traced by a specific element contained within it: the threat is increasingly stronger.

The dangers of the web can also hide in a harmless email arriving at our email address. Recently, it seems that trackers are becoming increasingly widespread in communications of this type.

According to reports from DuckDuckGo The 70% of emails would contain a tracker able to detect all one’s activity: when we opened the message, what device we were using and at what moment we did it. Furthermore, this data can also be useful for proliferating the user so as to influence the contents he sees online.

This process is usually done using Standard web tracking tools, commonly known as cookies and Web Beacons. Sending an e-mail, if it is an HTML communication, can have a small invisible tracking image inside it and can activate others by clicking on the link or attachment present. Response events are entered into a database, allowing the software to proceed with marketing communications.

How to stem trackers in e-mail: the solutions to be prepared

With trackers present in the email, your activity can be strongly influenced, for this reason it is useful to find solutions to stem this serious problem, so let’s see what the options are for saying goodbye to the threat of trackers:

• Mozilla Firefox Relay: It is a free service with paid options that vary from country to country. If you choose to use it, it is better to combine it with the Firefox browser to obtain maximum results. The service will allow us to have 5 email aliases available but with the browser extension to use Relay you will be able to have 2 more aliases. By paying monthly, 0.99 euros with annual billing or 1.99 euros per month, you will get the blocking of advertising emails and the ability to reply to messages anonymously;
• Protonmail and colleagues: is a private email service that uses Open Source end-to-end encryption and zero-access encryption to protect your email from all kinds of dangers. The service offers anti-tracking functions designed to block tracking pixels;
• DuckDuckGo Email Protection: Those who use the DuckDuckGo browser can take advantage of the email protection service. In this case you will get an email alias to use to hide the real address.