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All Gmail (and presumably Inbox) images are transcoded/downloaded via Google's image proxies. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platform%3D

All Gmail (and presumably Inbox) images are transcoded/downloaded via Google's image proxies. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platf...

oaeuntsh32nts 9y ago
Does that mean that if you even receive an email from a list, they get notified that you opened and read it, even if you didn't? If so, that seems bad to me.
- blacksmith_tb 9y ago
  Bad for whom? If spammers actually wanted to use that as an indication of a live account, they'd need to just give up and ignore all gmail.com addresses, which would be win for ordinary users.
- j_s 9y ago
  No. From the link: > senders may be able to know whether you've opened an email that has an image attached to a unique link My limited understanding is that the load happens on first open, from Google's servers.
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  - patmcguire 9y ago
    Yeah, without the ability to cookie them, which I guess is the gain from that.