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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by canadianwriter on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:44PM (#18041764)
Just want to throw out that pixel trackers are EXTREMELY common - you probably have an insane amount in your inbox now and a lot of email software uses them by default. Not saying this is okay, just giving that context.
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by chooseaname on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:17PM (#18041969)
I turn off downloading images by default. They'll have to work harder to know if I read my email.
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by jhayward on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:19PM (#18042746)
At one time gmail went ahead and fetched the images anyway, but didn't display them. The tracking still could record the "open event" although it didn't get a hit directly from the user's browser, rather through Google's image cache server.

I don't know if that's still the case.

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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by chooseaname on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:42PM (#18060769)
> At one time gmail went ahead and fetched the images anyway, but didn't display them.

SMH. I read things like this and I really just hope the internet implodes one day.

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