They're measuring "open rate" by putting links or images in the email that have uniquely identifying information, right? As much as I'm frustrated with Gmail's

They're measuring "open rate" by putting links or images in the email that have uniquely identifying information, right? As much as I'm frustrated with Gmail's spam filtering (I also use a personal email server, and it's annoying to get my personal email filtered by Gmail), I absolutely loathe seeing that tracking information in links, even if it's from a mailing list I specifically subscribed to. Often times they're newsletters that are also available on the web. I'd rather just go to ddg to search for the web version to read. Of course, that's probably a case of https://xkcd.com/1105/ https://xkcd.com/1105/