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Re:Images Now Showing in Gmail by GrinningFool on Thursday December 12, 2013 @12:40PM (#6895732)
To an extent - it seems that google indirectly confirms that emails are received (even though additional data is lost).
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Re:Images Now Showing in Gmail by valgaze on Thursday December 12, 2013 @12:52PM (#6895841)
A outfit like Yesware provides rough location data w/ their pixels.

FWIW, they're partially funded by Google Ventures- perhaps there is some type of technical compromise that doesn't break geographic tracking completely: http://www.yesware.com/blog/2012/07/18/how-does-yesware-trac...

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Re:Images Now Showing in Gmail by Anonymous98236 on Thursday December 12, 2013 @12:46PM (#6895787)
I believe they still have an "Ask before displaying external images" setting.
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Re:Images Now Showing in Gmail by GrinningFool on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:02PM (#6895906)
Yes, but it is unclear whether their servers will load them regardless of whether or not they're sent to my browser.
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Re:Images Now Showing in Gmail by eterm on Thursday December 12, 2013 @12:48PM (#6895807)
But surely ALL emails to @gmail.com are received.
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