specific person has viewed the image now in the context of this email here it's not the case but we can see that a lot of links that are clickable will also fire up you know those trackers so in order to block those one needs to not click on links which is quite inconvenient or not display images as i've shown earlier so what is apple doing differently why can't we not just not load images well apple's perspective on this is emails should be beautiful and should one should be able to load all of this like rich html content images and stuff without compromising our privacy uh there are there's a huge caveat which i'll you know mention at the end of the episode uh by the way if you're liking this so far click the like button it really helps um so what they're doing here is they're using the same technology that i've discussed in last episode so if you enable mail privacy protection it uses the private relay network to route those requests through proxies but it also does that a little differently than in the context of just safari browsing what happens is when the email client so apple mail on ios or mac os receives an email it will randomly meaning not at that exact timing fetch all of this you know rich content the images and stuff like this but it will fetch them spoofing the headers that means that when one accesses this usually one reveals what email client we have that is why mailchimp for instance knows how many people are viewing this on ios how many people are viewing it on windows they know this because when we're fetching that little image we're actually revealing all this so they're spoofing that information a little bit like i'm doing that in the context of firefox and they're also routing this uh request through the private relay so email client is setting up establishing an https connection with the ingress proxy ingress proxy will say hey we are in cupertino for instance so then the client will say okay i am in cupertino and it will then encrypt a connection true ingress proxy egress proxy NUMBER_TOKEN you know that asset this is furniture site from last episode but essentially that would be like this image and then that image would be routed back so since that image is actually fetched from the egress proxy and that is spoofing an address in cupertino but that isn't the one that we actually have well it means that that tracking company will not be able to know who actually opened that based on ip addresses and it also means that if they're dealing with data brokers some the data brokers won't be able to buy that data set and correlate it using one's ip to other data points such as you know facebook credit card purchases uh dns queries uh i've talked about that in last episode so i won't go over it all over again today um i guess this is a good time to mention today's sponsor today's sponsor is you all of this work that i'm doing i'm doing it because i really care about privacy and all of this work uh is done for you guys and i've disabled monetization on youtube i have a few episodes on why but essentially this project me doing more of this is essentially
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN by the way if you're liking this so far click the like button it really helps END_INTERACTION_TOKEN BETWEEN_SEGMENTS_TOKEN START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN um i guess this is a good time to mention today's sponsor today's sponsor is you all of this work that i'm doing i'm doing it because i really care about privacy and all of this work uh is done for you guys and i've disabled monetization on youtube i have a few episodes on why but essentially this project me doing more of this is essentially END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN