Most popular email providers such as Gmail and Outlook offer the option to request a read receipt when you send an email. If you know a person won’t track you or don’t care, you can allow images to always load for that individual email address. A read receipt, sometimes called a return receipt, is a notification confirming that the recipient received and opened your email.
When off, you will be asked if you want images to load. To turn them off in Gmail, simply go to Settings → General, and the fourth item allows you to toggle off automatic image loading. Gmail read receipts are only available on Gmail accounts for work or school that are set up by an administrator. You just stop photos from automatically loading. When the email is opened, the email client loads the image and the tracker notices and sends a notification. Email trackers, like HubSpot’s tracker for sales people, work by embedding a tiny 1×1 image - just a pixel - into an email. This is a limitation of the account itself, with read. However, there is an easy way to avoid being tracked. Standard Gmail accounts (such as those created for free) aren’t able to send or receive read receipts using built-in methods. On Android, tap on the three-dot icon at the top and go to Settings. If you click on Not Now, you will be asked to send the receipt the next time you open that email. Here are the steps to enable or disable read receipts on WhatsApp. Choosing the Send Receipts option will notify the sender right away. It was very easy to see the politicians’ locations, down to specific hotels. If an email tells you the sender has requested a read receipt, you can click on Send Receipts or select Not Now. This feature is available only for work and school Gmail accounts.
During the 2016 presidential election, Merchant wrote, a security researcher sent emails with trackers to senators and people running for president, and found they didn’t have any anti-tracking. To use read receipts, see Know when a recipient reads your email. Some trackers can even obtain people’s IP addresses and pinpoint locations with accuracy, and this isn’t something that most people realize - even people who should take precautions. (“No I haven’t read your message yet.” “I have the receipts, you’ve opened it four times.”) It also has the potential to be a privacy and security risk, as Brian Merchant detailed in Wired, because trackers can give clients more information than simply that their message was read. This doesn’t just have the potential to catch you in an uncomfortable white lie. Open your Gmail inbox as usual and click on Compose to write a new email. A screenshot from HubSpot’s promo page showing it’s tracking interface.
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