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It's a small transparent pixel loaded from a website (assuming the email client loads HTML). I'd make a unique image called mywebsite.com/jaclaz_read.png and wh
by Aethers 8y ago
It's a small transparent pixel loaded from a website (assuming the email client loads HTML). I'd make a unique image called mywebsite.com/jaclaz_read.png and when that image was loaded I'd know you read my email.
- jaclaz 8y agoI see, never knew they were called "pixel trackers". I am particularly "old style", I know, but I tend to use not whenever possible email clients that load the html, so an old habit turns out to be also (at least partially) "safer".
- crunchlibrarian 8y agoIn large companies like this you rarely get a choice for which email client you are allowed to use, or a say in which software you are allowed to install.
- jaclaz 8y agoYep, I can understand that, but I thought that this was an elite, a subset of high rank developers that surely (or at least I would hope so) could have a bit more of leeway by the management and/or be capable of work around this kind of nonsense. Of course in the US a lot of practices revolving around "controlling employees" are allowed and even considered "normal" whilst in Europe they are seriously frown upon.