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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.
by 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 agoBad 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 agoNo. 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 agoYeah, without the ability to cookie them, which I guess is the gain from that.