I'd imagine that they are going to de-dup the images they proxy which means email marketers need to generate unique images per mail and that means no more 1-pixel tracking images.
A solution would be 1-pixel high tracking lines - a 1 x 128 pixel wide image that encoded 0 and 1 as two RGB colors adjacent to the mail's background color in the visual spectrum so the difference isn't noticeable would encode a sha-1 hash placed in the url.
http://example.com/tracking-line/{hash}.png
Or, if they snip the GET variable for whatever reason (I don't see them doing this):
http://example.com/gmail/{yourusername}/trackingimage.php
Or even:
http://example.com/{emailidfromadatabase}/trackingimage.php
This tactic is already in use by most mass email companies.