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ryankshaw
on Dec 12, 2013
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Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all ima...
it does, indeed, send the request when it is actually opened. see:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895876
/me goes to go find and turn on the "block third party images" feature.
twoodfin
on Dec 12, 2013
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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
on Dec 12, 2013
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this is what the original announcement blog post seems to imply indeed
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/me goes to go find and turn on the "block third party images" feature.