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Everything about Email tracking
To check if an email has been read
Email tracking or email tracker is a method for monitoring whether the email message is read by the intended recipient. Most tracking technologies use some form of digitally time-stamped record to reveal the exact time and date when an email is received or opened, as well as the IP address of the recipient. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Email trackingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Hard to See, Harder to Block: Exploring the Challenges in Email Tracking Pixels DetectionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Address BookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Tracking recurring contexts using ensemble classifiers: an application to email filteringCited 164 times
- Go sideways: Return receiptA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Web beaconA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Tracking recurring contexts using ensemble classifiers: an application to email filtering
I never signed up for this! Privacy implications of email tracking
Understanding Phishing Email Processing and Perceived Trustworthiness Through Eye Tracking
Robust identification of email tracking: A machine learning approach
DMA email tracking report 2014
DMA Insight: Consumer email tracking report 2015
Assessment of Purchasing Influence of Email Campaigns Using Eye Tracking
Email Tracking Beacon: Concerns and Solutions
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Address BookSmith Lachkar · 2020
- 📕Address BookJohn Starts · 2020
- 📕Address BookMartin Rauch · 2021
- 📕Address BookSiegrid Schweizer · 2021
- 📕Address BookPretty Floral Address Books, Practical Blank Journals · 2019
- 📕Address BookCleverLogBook · 2021
- 📕Address BookFriedhelm Hartmann · 2021
- 📕Address Bookkabdi Edition · 2021
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