[Lounge] Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers

SlimProxies · Dec 13, 2013

You can read an article here http://arstechnica.com/information-...ting-by-caching-all-images-on-google-servers/
or the official announcement here http://gmailblog.blogspot.gr/2013/12/images-now-showing.html

tl;dr
"E-mail marketers will no longer be able to get any information from images?they will see a single request from Google, which will then be used to send the image out to all Gmail users. Unless you click on a link, marketers will have no idea the e-mail has been seen."

bartosimpsonio · Dec 13, 2013

Immense expense by google...I wonder how they're gonna compensate for the new cost this incurs.

M4XW3LL · Dec 13, 2013

No, Gmail's tweak won't stop e-mail marketers from knowing if you open their e-mail
You can read the article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/12/no-gmails-tweak-wont-stop-e-mail-marketers-from-knowing-if-you-open-their-email/

SlimProxies · Dec 13, 2013

FisnikS said:
No, Gmail's tweak won't stop e-mail marketers from knowing if you open their e-mail
You can read the article here:

Thanks for this. Interesting read.

LakeForest · Dec 14, 2013

How does all of this play into email users that disable images?

I don't think I've allowed or seen an image on an email in 10+ years.

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