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by dexterdog 2604 days ago
I thought images were off by default
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But it does not matter, if google download all the images when for all your emails then showing them to you is just a fetch from their own servers. Similarly to the ad-blocking extension that clicked all ads on the page (in isolation) so that tracking would be useless.
Not in the Web client I'm afraid