How My Bad Email Advice Almost Ruined a Friendship

[craigh]

https://blog.mailchimp.com/how-gmails-image-caching-affects-open-tracking/

Worth reading if you're interested in a bit more technical understanding.

 

[yescats]

@yescats

This is a 5-year-old video directly from Google about their Inbox Priority which used your opens to determine email priority:

And this is 2 years old, but talks about how Google tracks your activity across all platforms.

I think what you may be missing is that when the opens and clicks are happening on Gmail's own platform, they don't need to add additional tracking to monitor it.

I use Outlook.