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Mass-email senders probably would put a unique identifier in the image url (different for all users), so Google will open each image, because it can't know befo

by Wilya 13y ago

Mass-email senders probably would put a unique identifier in the image url (different for all users), so Google will open each image, because it can't know before loading them that it's the same image.

mtrimpe 13y ago
Or they could retrieve every image sent to a gmail address immediately, regardless of whether you viewed it or not. That would essentially render open statistics meaningless and would let Google cripple another industry after the promotions tab and 'not provided.' I really hope they don't because it's such valuable information when creating email copy...
- Wilya 13y ago
  I agree they could do it, but people upthread are suggesting that Google doesn't do that, and only loads the image when you open the message.
  - Gepser 13y ago
    they could track if an email was opened twice first one = Google second one = user
    - ktsmith 13y ago
      I would imagine that google caches the images so there would be one request instead of two.
      - Gepser 13y ago
        you are right, I didn't think on that
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