For the love of Mining

[Pinoaffe]

> I'm guessing you can get around this by using IMAP or POP3 to read your
> email. I wonder what their monetization plan is for customers who read
> their mail with an email client?
Can't they also change the links to redirects before imap and pop3
download them? It's probably more work to implement, but still very
possible.

On 08/23/2016 10:57 PM, Layxt wrote:
> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: For the love of Mining
>> Local Time: August 23, 2016 1:16 PM
>> UTC Time: August 23, 2016 8:16 PM
>> From: grarpamp at gmail.com
>> To: cypherpunks at cpunks.org
>>
>> So for the past six months or so google has decided to infesting their
>> gmail webmail with tracking redirectors on all things that look like
>> links.
>> To be expected, and fuck em straight to hell.
>>
>> But who else find it hilarious they chose 'usg' as the tracking
>> parameter name ;)
>>
>> http://www.google.com/url?q=http://<hostname>&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=<token>
> 
> I'm surprised they didn't start doing this long ago. Lots of juicy data
> to mine there.
> 
> I'm guessing you can get around this by using IMAP or POP3 to read your
> email. I wonder what their monetization plan is for customers who read
> their mail with an email client?