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sharperguyyesterday at 8:42 PM1 replyview on HN

They know that you likely read some email from HSBC and if you happen to read the same one again they will know it was the same one.


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crazygringoyesterday at 8:52 PM

Right. But even over HTTPS it's not rocket science to figure out that connecting to www.email1.hsbc.co.uk pretty strongly suggests you've opened an e-mail with an image. And the number of times you request the same URL tells someone... what exactly? Because HTTPS still tells people the number of times you access any URL on a domain.

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