Creep Alert is the Chrome extension to end invasive email tracking. It blocks attempts at tracking you, and it has a one-click button that inserts a polite "don't track me"-response to the sender.
Hi Producthunt!
We’ve made Creep Alert because we’re getting creeped out of the mainstream adoption of email tracking between friends and colleagues.
With some tracking services, people can not only check if you have opened the email. They can also see exactly when you opened it and how many times. They can even know if you opened it on a laptop or a phone, and where you were when you opened it.
It should be needless to say, but doing this without the recipient knowing or consenting is downright unhealthy behavior in any personal or professional relationship.
Creep Alert blocks attempts at email tracking and alerts you when someone has hidden an email tracker in an email they sent you.
But blocking the email trackers is not enough. If the sender never gets any feedback on their behavior, they will continue to track the next person. To battle this, we’ve also made a “NOT OK”-button. It makes it super easy to reply with a polite message asking them to turn the tracking of in future emails.
We would be happy for any feedback or ideas on how to improve Creep Alert :)
Hey @henningsillerud , congrats on the launch this sounds like a nice product.
Q: why do you explicitly mention "friends or colleagues" who track you? Is it something technical (as only checking when the sender is in your contacts) or would it also work for any kind of email?
Thanks @marcbc! Good question. It works on any kind of email that have a pixel tracker in it. We're mentioning "friends or colleagues" for two reasons. 1/ About one fifth of every email between acquaintances are tracked according to reports. 2/ It serves as a concrete example for visitors. We also considered "Check if people are tracking you" but thought it sounded a bit more bland.
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