It was reported that attached images in the Gmail app can double as email trackers, and some can even tell the sender exactly where you were when you opened the message.
attached images can double as email trackers, and some can even tell the sender exactly where you were when you opened the message.As Davidson explained on his blog, a paid email service called Superhuman “decided to embed hidden tracking pixels inside of the emails its customers send out.” You won’t ever see these pixels, but if you open an email with one inside, the sender will be able to see exactly what time you opened the email and your location when you opened it.
The outrage that followed convinced Superhuman to remove location data from the feature it so innocuously called “Read Receipts” and turn it off by default for its customers. Nevertheless, the chain reaction of the blog post appears to have resulted in Google giving its users a way to fight back against the imperceptible tracking methods that some email services employ.
This setting was previously only available to desktop users, but now all iPhone and iPad owners can up their privacy game as well. As The Verge notes, the setting is accessible on personal Gmail accounts, but does not appear to have migrated to G Suite accounts quite yet. Hopefully Google will clarify that soon.
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