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Is there a way to detect whether user has read an email with the standard Gmail image filter enabled?

• okamiueru 14y ago
  Facebook does a "trick" by playing an empty sound file. http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/06/facebook-knows-when-you-open-their-emails-how-creepy-silent-sounds/ http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/06/facebook-knows-when-you-ope...
  • jcampbell1 14y ago
    Interesting, but that is a hack for IE / Outlook, not the GMail image filters.
  • cma 14y ago
    That should be a violation of the CFAA... charge Zuckerberg with ~300 billion counts
• encoderer 14y ago
  Where I work we run a batch job that looks for inbound clicks from an email without a corresponding "email opened" tracking pixel being fired. Gives us an idea of how many people are engaging with images turned off or some other form of tracking pixel blocking. Our analytics wizards then use that and other data to come up with some estimates on how many users are opening our emails with images disabled.
  • nwh 14y ago
    Could you share any rough statistics?
    • encoderer 14y ago
      No, sorry.
    • WillyF 14y ago
      On my list of about 11,500, just under 400 people have "opened never" but have clicked at least one link. So it's a pretty small number. I'd be you can just about double it to get the total number of opens that haven't been tracked.
  • deleted 14y ago
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• grinich 14y ago
  Not unless they click a link.
• mcpherrinm 14y ago
  The reason the image filter exists is to prevent this. I would consider it a bug if there was.
• WillyF 14y ago
  Click tracking on links. Obviously, it only works if your users click.