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Variants of "pixel trackers" still work fine on Gmail despite this. To this day a lot of marketing, recruiters and others are tracking when you open their messa
by nil_pointer 8y ago
Variants of "pixel trackers" still work fine on Gmail despite this. To this day a lot of marketing, recruiters and others are tracking when you open their message on Gmail.
- Bedon292 8y agoHow are these variants working? Curious about how they are getting around google hitting all of them.
- LucasBrandt 8y agoI assume Google doesn't request the image until the email is opened.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoEven with images disabled?
- jiaweihli 8y agoNo, disabling images breaks pixel tracking. One way to quickly sanity check a mail client's priorities is whether it gives you the option to disable images by default. Some clients that don't allow you to disable by default: Polymail, Gmail on iOS, Inbox (Google) on IOS If it's free, you're the product...
- jkn 8y agoHa I thought you were wrong, but it turns out that indeed, you can disable image loading in the Gmail Web interface, in the Android app, but not on iOS: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platf...