Absolutely they could. Although I doubt they do, it seems far more intrusive somehow...
Then again, I don't use Gmail. John On August 23, 2016 6:05:45 PM EDT, Pinoaffe <pinoa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm guessing you can get around this by using IMAP or POP3 to read >your >> email. I wonder what their monetization plan is for customers who >read >> their mail with an email client? >Can't they also change the links to redirects before imap and pop3 >download them? It's probably more work to implement, but still very >possible. > >On 08/23/2016 10:57 PM, Layxt wrote: >> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: For the love of Mining >>> Local Time: August 23, 2016 1:16 PM >>> UTC Time: August 23, 2016 8:16 PM >>> From: grarp...@gmail.com >>> To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org >>> >>> So for the past six months or so google has decided to infesting >their >>> gmail webmail with tracking redirectors on all things that look like >>> links. >>> To be expected, and fuck em straight to hell. >>> >>> But who else find it hilarious they chose 'usg' as the tracking >>> parameter name ;) >>> >>> >http://www.google.com/url?q=http://<hostname>&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=<token> >> >> I'm surprised they didn't start doing this long ago. Lots of juicy >data >> to mine there. >> >> I'm guessing you can get around this by using IMAP or POP3 to read >your >> email. I wonder what their monetization plan is for customers who >read >> their mail with an email client? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
