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The linked Twitter conversation is reasonable: https://twitter.com/hfiguiere/status/483040912491036672 https://twitter.com/hfiguiere/status/483040912491036672
by Sir_Cmpwn 12y ago
The linked Twitter conversation is reasonable:
https://twitter.com/hfiguiere/status/483040912491036672 https://twitter.com/hfiguiere/status/483040912491036672
If you read the email, they mark the notification as read so it doesn't bother you in the web UI. I'm a strong supporter of user privacy, but this is a reasonable thing for GitHub to do.
- quarterto 12y agoAnd you can always read Github's source code to find out if they're using the tracking pixel for anything el- ohhhh waaaait
- masklinn 12y agoIt was also announced officially on their official blog back then: https://github.com/blog/1214-notification-email-improvements https://github.com/blog/1214-notification-email-improvements > Notifications that are read as HTML email are automatically marked as read in the github.com notifications interface. An invisible image is embedded in each mail message to enable this.