Gmail Can Now Tell Senders When A Recipient Opens An Email

Mail Online ^ | 12 February 2014 | Victoria Woollaston

[Windflier]

Full title: No excuse not to reply now! Gmail can now tell senders when a recipient opens an email – and even reveal where they were

[Windflier]

FR search function was not working when I searched for this title on the site.

[Still Thinking]

Creepy. I’m having the urge to learn how to write Android apps just so I can write a firewall to defeat this.

[mongrel]

I’m guessing this is not a function of gmail itself. Streak probably inserts code that signals back whenever something is viewed. Constant contact and mail chimp already do that cross platform. Every email you’ve already received from mass emailers already tracks all this stuff.

[DuncanWaring]

Everything associated with Google is creepy.

Google is Evil.

[tomkat]

Wonder if it’ll also tell the sender that any of their crap via Gmail has been auto-shredded by my mail server w/o ever being glanced at ?

[BipolarBob]

I could've sworn I gmail'ed you about this already.
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[tomkat]

Agreed .. Seriesly

[Ramius]

This is a plugin that has to be installed on the client? Can’t we just not install it?

[Will88]

Things are getting creepy. Now there are firms that tell you when someone is searching for you, and, of course, they’d also tell others who you might be searching for. So, if you look up phone numbers or addresses of individuals on the net, they might get a report telling them that.

These net companies are connecting too many things that don’t really need to be connected.

[Wage Slave]

It sounds like the services that attach an image or an html tag into the email. Possibly if you disable html in your email it won’t work. I’m not sure what I’m talking about, just a vague memory of something I read. Any sharper knives in the drawer that can tell us for sure?

[Windflier]

I could've sworn I gmail'ed you about this already.

You did, but I haven't opened it yet :-)

[Windflier]

Creepy. I’m having the urge to learn how to write Android apps just so I can write a firewall to defeat this.

I'll buy that for a dollar!

[Windflier]

I’m guessing this is not a function of gmail itself. Streak probably inserts code that signals back whenever something is viewed.

Correct. It's an add on program.

[Windflier]

Wonder if it’ll also tell the sender that any of their crap via Gmail has been auto-shredded by my mail server w/o ever being glanced at ?

I gotta get me one of those.

[Windflier]

Can’t we just not install it?

That's the way I understand it, however, anyone who's got this installed and uses Gmail, can tell whether you've opened their mail or not.

[mongrel]

Gmail is one of the better programs for letting these services from taking you. It automatically disables them. You have to click view images for these to work.

[mongrel]

It should have read, “from tracking you.....”

[Windflier]

Things are getting creepy. These net companies are connecting too many things that don’t really need to be connected.

I agree. It's getting to the point where our every movement will be watched, recorded, and cataloged, every waking minute of every day.

Rage against the machine!

[Wage Slave]

It’s been around for awhile. See spypig.com