Yesterday, I noticed in the middle of the "You just went to the Google homepage" conversation, my GMail "accept this image" banner was on, but I could see no image!
WTF? So I look at the raw source, and indeed, this appears: https://app.yesware.com/t/ac60524099a2c2922efb3fea7fcd30ecf03a1=482/5bb54418d45ddd9646340c46dfba6e56/spacer.gif .. which when downloaded was a single pixel, invisible due to alpha=0 and possibly being white. This seems to be a way of knowing when the mail was opened, the yesware.comsite can collect statistics on the image being displayed. Is anyone doing this on purpose? Or have you caught a malware in your mail client that is looking at your usage? Or is it simply part of an obscure formatting stunt? BTW: This then appeared in all the rest of the conversation which included the initial email. -- Owen
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