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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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