Tell HN: Gmail tampers with incoming email body content

I don't get what the problem is? Gmail turns text that looks like a link into a clickable link. What could the negative implications of that be?

In what client are you viewing this in your screenshots? If their web mail client displays things as links that's much less concerning to me than the SMTP backend tampering. It's expected for an email client to have quality of life features.

> does Gmail have any "Display un**ed" option?? Er, no.

On the email, click the dotdotdot, show original. https://imgur.com/a/ymjtfCI

GMail (and Fastmail) are rendering the email. It just happens that the email and we webbrowser are both HTML. In no case should they just literally forward the email HTML to the browser. They scrub JavaScript, non-whitelisted HTML elements, rewrite links/external resources including tracking pixels.

You can see the raw email with "show original" in the options

I'm afraid my righteous indignation only flickered slightly.

Outlook’s done this for like a decade? Ditto Apple mail.

I think they do the same with email addresses and phone numbers too, it’s kind of useful and not a big deal.

I’m so confused. Isn’t Amazon.co.uk their official domain in the UK? How is that link a scam?

fucker of cocks