THESE Are the Tracking Pixels You Need to Worry About

In this video, I showcase a revolutionary feat of engineering: the first untraceable tracking pixel. With some understand of HTTP, software engineering, and computer networking, we can apply the mechanics of traditional tracking pixels to legitimate email resources, to become fully undetectable to those who ghost us.

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned programmer, you can harness this ability yourself, as well as bettering your digital hygiene, online privacy, and resistance to hackers, spyware, and other trackers.

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[Ethan_Simon]

If you continue to make videos like these your channel will grow tenfold in half a year.
Source: I made it up, but I'm pretty sure I'll be right.
Keep up the good work.

[mielole]

I have the "do not show images" option set in gmail. I guess it isn't a default?

[derekb]

Awesome video, made me experiment with the concepts for my own stuff, hope you keep up with the content!

[miguelmartins]

Great video! Very informative. I have a question: though these tracking pixels seem benign, might a recipient using their work e-mail get in trouble with their employer by opening an e-mail containing one of these 'tracking pixels'? Perhaps the employer would see this employee inadvertently being tracked as susceptible to other more malicious forms of cyber crime, which might warrant some sort of disciplinary action or mandatory training for the employee. I can imagine that being the case for someone working in a highly sensitive industry. If so, that would render this seemingly inconsequential tracking pixel (hidden in an e-mail signature) much more malign than the sender intended. Thanks!

[GameDev]

Can email providers/clients refuse to send http requests for embedded html content? This seems like the next logical step to block this, or everybody will just include html by default for tracking.

[maternalpick]

This is a fantastic and informative video

[Docs]

Ok but i dont get for waht this is good for? Like sseing if the e-mails is beeing read? Just add read receipts.... ok that doesnt work every time the mail is opened but good enough... or am I missing something

[oportbis]

So that's why Thunderbird doesn't display images automatically, isn't it?

[vickyyadav]

How to set the enpoint in the tracking pixel.

[mikeywork]

This won’t work on iOS all pictures on all emails are read and cached so it will always look like the email is opened once.

[Jango]

This is great! I'm definitely going to give this a go for the lulz

[waifuking]

Great video can now see if my resume letters are being ignored