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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by nil_pointer on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:50PM (#18041807)
Variants of "pixel trackers" still work fine on Gmail despite this. To this day a lot of marketing, recruiters and others are tracking when you open their message on Gmail.
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by Bedon292 on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:20PM (#18041989)
How are these variants working? Curious about how they are getting around google hitting all of them.
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by LucasBrandt on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:51PM (#18042177)
I assume Google doesn't request the image until the email is opened.
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:10PM (#18042313)
Even with images disabled?
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by jiaweihli on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:56PM (#18043573)
No, disabling images breaks pixel tracking. One way to quickly sanity check a mail client's priorities is whether it gives you the option to disable images by default.

Some clients that don't allow you to disable by default: Polymail, Gmail on iOS, Inbox (Google) on IOS

If it's free, you're the product...

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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by jkn on Sunday September 23, 2018 @04:03AM (#18049983)
Ha I thought you were wrong, but it turns out that indeed, you can disable image loading in the Gmail Web interface, in the Android app, but not on iOS: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platf...
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