Email pixel tracking??

[majorpain]

Bananatag, Mailtrack are two examples of these tracking programs i am aware of.
Does NoScript stop these invisible embedded pixel based snoopers from activating and phoning home with there ill gotten gains.
For reference i use Firefox and Gmail as my mail and browse solutions and at present and as far as i am aware there are no addons to prevent this.
Chrome does have the Pixelblock addon which apparently works.

I also run Ghostery and have asked the question whether this program blocks these invasive little trackers but at present they do not.

I included links to an article over on Wired discussing the issue along with an example script from Google of a snooper at play.

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/ugly-mail/

https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/ ... 7585?hl=en

[barbaz]

I seem to recall I tried an email privacy test with Gmail webmail a while ago and nothing showed as having leaked...

Anyway NoScript won't block that kind of thing by default but since it's a concern and you use webmail, you can block with ABE:
NoScript Options > Advanced > ABE > USER

Code: Select all

Site .trackerdoma.in1 .trackerdoma.in2 ^.*/regexp-for-pixel-[0-9A-Za-z]+\.gif
Deny

see ABE Rules .pdf for more details

[majorpain]

Many thanks for the support.

I will add this rule to NoScript and as a result i will certainly look more closely into some of the programs more advanced features, though i have been very impressed so far having been using it to great effect these past couple of years.
Keep up the great work guys

[barbaz]

It's just an example to show you the syntax... you replace what's written after "Site" with the real domains of trackers you're worried about and possibly a generic regexp or two matching tracking pixel URLs.