So far, Gmail across all platforms has offered users the feature whereby it blocks the display of images embedded in a message from all but trusted senders. There’s a good reason why that is, as unlike with the text of an email that gets delivered to you through Google’s systems, when you view images in an email, you’re connecting directly to someone else’s server. That not only can be used to verify if you actually read the email, potentially violating your privacy, but reveals your IP, and by extension, your rough ...
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