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Unfortunately, standardization != widespread use. Tracking pixels are still the most reliable way to know whether a recipient (or many) opened your message.
by karim 10y ago
Unfortunately, standardization != widespread use. Tracking pixels are still the most reliable way to know whether a recipient (or many) opened your message.
- jcranmer 10y agoUnless your recipients use email clients that don't load remote http images except on demand. I can think of one email client with ~15 million users that does that.
- thatcat 10y agoWhich client blocks remote images by default? Is it a cli or gui?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- JelteF 10y agoI think he meant Gmail
- mericsson 10y agohttps://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/gmail-now-has-more-than-1b-monthly-active-users/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/gmail-now-has-more-than-1b...
- carussell 10y agoMore like http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/search/label/mailnews http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/search/label/mailnews
- rogerbinns 10y agoThunderbird, gui.
- tracker1 10y agoGemail, Outlook.com/hotmail, thunderbird and outlook all block images, unless whitelisted... Now, there may be other providers/clients that don't, but the above accounts for a significant number of users (if not most western mail users).
- jpalomaki 10y ago"When you get a message that has a picture in it, you see the picture automatically. " https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platf...
- vurpo 10y agoGmail automatically downloads and caches images, and loads them from their server instead of from the original remote server, when you read the email.
- timdorr 10y agoThat only obfuscates the reader's IP. Gmail respects Cache-Control headers, so it will not cache the image if you tell it not to.
- ralfn 10y agoGmail does something more interesting. It shows the image by default if the url is not unique, or the image is an attachment. It also uses googles servers to download and cache the image when receiving it.
- phillc73 10y agoAlpine, gui of sorts K9, gui Android (think it blocks by default, or I turned off auto load when I installed ages ago).
- brazzledazzle 10y agoI believe Exchange/O365/Outlook block by default when the senders are outside the organization.
- TheGrumpyBrit 10y agoEvery mail client I've used, including webmail, has blocked external images by default for at least the last decade.
- echion 10y agoThat's not a good excuse for not implementing a standard. It's also a little like saying "private investigators are still the most reliable way to know whether a person is at home": it's true, but not really a better thing to implement.
- allover 10y agoWhether a standard has adoption or not is a perfectly good consideration when deciding whether to implement it.
- TheGrumpyBrit 10y agohttps://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/