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You're safe either way, but if you have autoloading disabled they still can't track that you've read until you load the images. The change is that clicking to

by ZoF 11y ago

You're safe either way, but if you have autoloading disabled they still can't track that you've read until you load the images. The change is that clicking to load images is no longer the default [0] Do you get enough spam on your Gmail for this to be a worry point? Genuinely curious; I get roughly zero. [0]http://www.wired.com/2013/12/turn-gmail-auto-image-loading-off/ http://www.wired.com/2013/12/turn-gmail-auto-image-loading-o...

noja 11y ago
> You're safe either way Eh? Before they used track-me.example.com/IDHERE and got blocked, now they use IDHERE.track-me.example.com and don't get blocked. Move the unique ID to DNS and Google will let it through.
- ZoF 11y ago
  I assumed by safe you meant something else. Yes if you load images they can track that you have opened the email. I fail to see how that is 'unsafe' though. It's expected functionality.
  - noja 11y ago
    It's expected that they can track you, when before they blocked the images to prevent that?