From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   Gary McGath  wrote:   
   > On 7/1/24 12:02 PM, David Langford wrote:   
   >> EDITORIAL. Being routinely paranoid about links that don't go where   
   >> claimed, I was a little slow to vote in 2026 Worldcon site selection. The   
   >> email from the voting subcontractor ElectionBuddy Inc shows the URL as   
   >> 'secure.electionbuddy.com/' followed by the promised 19-character voter ID   
   >> -- but hovering over the link reveals it as 'go.electionbuddy.com/' plus   
   >> some 200 characters of alphanumerical gibberish. No doubt there are vitally   
   >> important security reasons for this....   
   >   
   > This is a universal problem with mailing list services these days. They   
   > include an image element just so the sender will be pinged every time   
   > someone opens a message. The links all contain personalized tracking   
   > information. In many cases they don't even go to the alleged   
   > destination, but to a URL that may, if it feels like it, redirect you   
   > there after sucking out all the personalized information, or could take   
   > you somewhere else for all you know.   
   >   
      
   This is why my gmail account defaults to not loading images.   
      
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