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		kabwj on July 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails Desktop email clients I know don’t load images by default, neither does gmail (well it does but it’s proxified) so this is quite literally not an issue

vbsteven on July 2, 2019 [–]

Does a proxy really help if the url is parametrized? Even if they do some param stripping a wildcard subdomain can easily get around that.

kabwj on July 2, 2019 | [–]

A proxy helps not to expose your IP and user agent which is good enough in most cases.

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