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Do companies know you've opened an email?

coffeehound · 2017-04-28 14:29:22

Just wondering: does the act of opening an email allow some kind of signal to be sent to the sender? I know this is true of company internal email systems, but is it also true of spam or commercial emails delivered to, say, your webmail account? Thanks.

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elektra Posts: 1,361 Forumite

10 May 2017 at 6:20PM

The following text was at the bottom of one of my emails, unusual for a company to be upfront with this info.

This email uses clear gifs (web beacons), which tell us whether you open this email. The information is used to enable more accurate reporting and ensure we are sending you relevant content. You can turn off web beacons by not "enabling images" in an email. Instructions on how to do this automatically should be in the help section or help file of your browser or program.

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