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it does, indeed, send the request when it is actually opened. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895876 /m

it does, indeed, send the request when it is actually opened. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895876 /me goes to go find and turn on the "block third party images" feature.

twoodfin 13y ago
Are we sure they won't programmatically/statistically detect these tracking URLs and start skipping the request after the first dozen or so retrievals out of 10,000,000?
- tiziano88 13y ago
  this is what the original announcement blog post seems to imply indeed