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> I'm glad that you never ever received any link to some derivation of st.es.rui.tracking/bzzz/pfrrrrt?campaign=hn that hide the real link, but in the real world, that's how tracking is done. Plain text doesn't prevent anything.

That's the thing - I do get lots of them. In the age of html+plain and abuse of tracking (because it's so easy to hide with html), plain text version is just littered with this nonsense...

For example I just got notification from allegro.pl (shopping platform) and all links have that:

`?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=cartWithPayment&utm_campaign=cef…35-c856-…-…-687c…cdd6&tr_n=buyer-cart&tr_id=f09…d40-…-…-…-05b0…7126-…__f09d2e80-…-…-…-05b0ee617126-…&tr_d=allegro.pl&tr_c=purchase-details&tr_s=LM…sCz>`

As for attachments - obvious exaggeration to dismiss actual issue: bravo…

> You want to argue that plain text is better, but your arguments are that plain tex, are better for you. Don't make the mistake to assume that your specific experience is a workable average.

Don't assume that someone using HTML actually do it conciously or is glad to receive it in that form because average user doesn't complain about it



So you're agreeing that plain text doesn't prevent tracking ? And that advocating for it won't solve the problem ?

> As for attachments - obvious exaggeration to dismiss actual issue: bravo…

No, the issue is that you can't tell everyone to "just upload the picture somewhere and put the link in the middle", that's unreasonable. That is the issue. HTML solves an issue.

> Don't assume that someone using HTML actually do it conciously or is glad to receive it in that form because average user doesn't complain about it

Average users want formatting. Plain text doesn't provide it. HTML for emails sucks, but plain text isn't a solution to that.




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