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This is one of my favorite features of GitHub, alongside reply by email to comment.<p>Does anyone know how their beacons get around Gmail's tracking buster? (<a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html" rel="nofollow">https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html</a>)

This is a very commonly implemented practice in HTML emails. Nothing to bust out your tinfoil hat over (just keep it on your desk, I'm sure it will be needed after reading other HN posts). Just disable loading external images by default in your email client if you don't want these services to know if you've read their email.

"I'm paranoid enough to be worried about an email beacon. But instead of protecting myself with a secure client or text-only mode, I'd like to trust that people aren't going to track me."<p>Right.

A beacon doesn't mean they're reading the content of the email.

If you want to add this to your Rails app with basically no configuration check out the Ahoy gem.

"I'm paranoid enough to be worried about an email beacon. But instead of protecting myself with a secure client or text-only mode, I'd like to trust that people aren't going to track me."<p>Right.

A beacon doesn't mean they're reading the content of the email.

If you want to add this to your Rails app with basically no configuration check out the Ahoy gem.

GitHub spy on user reading emails (2014)

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GitHub spy on user reading emails (2014)

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