Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'
by anaerobicover on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:58PM
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I'm not familiar with this area. Can you explain the mechanism for this? What thing is imposing the "risk of being marked as spam", and how does it make its determination? Specifically, how does it have any idea about whether the end user has "opened" the mail?
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Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'
by anewone on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:04PM
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Gmail can do their own tracking on what emails a user opens. If they find that a user is leaving a lot of mail from a domain unread, they might decide to start shifting that mail into the spam box to provide a better UX.
As a sender, it's impossible to get any specifics from Google as to when it happens. You can get a generalized spam report rate from them but that's about it.