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With the New Gmail, People Will Know When You Open That Message
- rblatz 13y agoThis is literally the exact opposite of what is happening. Google is downloading the images when they receive the message and then proxying the images.
- eco 13y agoYeah. The author of this article apparently didn't read the GMail announcement carefully enough. Email marketers can no longer track when email is opened on GMail accounts because every single image is opened whether the user reads the email or not. Edit: Some other discussions about this on HN suggest it only fetches the email if the user opens the email so I guess the jury is still out.
- cookingrobot 13y agoThere's a lot of confusion around what they're really doing. Either: 1) they're caching the images when they're sent. This seems to be what Google and Ars are saying, and it's what makes sense. 2) they're loading the image when the email is opened. This would be a privacy disaster, and is what Wired is saying, and from various comments people claim to have confirmed this by testing with their own servers.
- hamiltonkibbe 13y agoThey already did. Now they know less about who opened the email.