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Re:Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails by bduerst on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:13PM (#20337174)
This is correct: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
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Re:Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails by chimeracoder on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:35PM (#20337409)
> This is correct: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html

No, it's wrong. The first time you open the email, the image is retrieved. It's only subsequent views that are cached. So the sender can still see when you read the email; they just can't see how many times you read it afterwards.

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Re:Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails by bduerst on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:38PM (#20337440)
Not quite, the sender still doesn't get location and your browser fingerprint. The receipt of email is still received though.
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Re:Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails by chimeracoder on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:40PM (#20337463)
> Not quite, the sender still doesn't get location and your browser fingerprint.

Yes, but the key question was about the open rate.

The statement:

> I thought Gmail's solution to this was to always download every image in your email and then proxy the image from their own servers when you view it. This results in a meaningless 100% "open rate" for Gmail

is incorrect because

a) GMail does not always download every image in your email

b) GMail does not have a 100% open rate.

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Re:Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails by thejohnstone on Friday July 05, 2019 @07:41AM (#20361739)
You are right, but do not trust in Gmail, because they like to store your data on their servers!
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