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Re:Images Now Showing in Gmail by dragonwriter on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:23PM (#6896083)
> I don't understand how a proxy will protect me from an image loaded as

It will protect you from it being as a read receipt if (and I'm not sure if this is the case, though it should be trivial to test by sending email with images served from a site you control to an email you control without opening it) Google requests the image once it has received the email.

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Re:Images Now Showing in Gmail by thedufer on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:26PM (#6896458)
If you read other comments, a number of people have done the trivial test and confirmed that images aren't requested until you open the email.
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Re:Images Now Showing in Gmail by staticfish on Thursday December 12, 2013 @03:27PM (#6896967)
Wow this is really dreadful.
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