Eli5 the non-danger of hidden txt in emails?

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I’ve just talked to a few consultants tonight and they’ve told me of a few times when they would type “fuck you” or some such negative thing under their email signature and then change the text to white fill. If people discovered this inter company or from an outside consultant isn’t there a veritable fuck ton of contractual ethics violations going on?

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It’s childish, cowardly and could have consequences.

Note that the same principle is used for email tracking: an “invisible” 1×1 white pixel is embedded and when the recipient opens the message the sender gets an alert with a timestamp of the read (and sometimes more like machine/phone used, geolocation, opening of attachments, &c.).

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