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It's still more privacy-preserving than not preloading them at all, right? Whoever is serving the images doesn't get your IP addresses, cookies, etc. Not sayin

It's still more privacy-preserving than not preloading them at all, right? Whoever is serving the images doesn't get your IP addresses, cookies, etc. Not saying Google is virtuous here -- it only serves to enforce their advertising monopoly -- but I don't see how the image caching in itself is a bad thing.

sp332 5y ago
Ok, that's probably true. Still works as a read receipt though.
- graftak 5y ago
  Not if gmail always follows (image) links in emails, regardless of whether the recipient address belongs to anyone. Then it’s all noise.
  - account42 5y ago
    But they don't.