Many of us have more than a few unread emails in our inbox . Even if you ’re one of the few overachievers who maintainsinbox zero , you may not have the time ( or the motivating ) to react to every single electronic mail you read . But the private rush you get from neglect someone ’s third follow - up electronic mail may not be as private as you think . Using an email tracking Robert William Service , transmitter can check over whether or not you opened their e-mail , and in some case , where you read it and on what form of machine . fortuitously , you’re able to keep these people in the dark by installing a special plugin of your own .
AsLifehackerreports , a browser app propagation calledUgly Emailcan show you which electronic mail come from transmitter using email tracking software . If amessageis embedded with a tracker , Ugly Email , which is available for Chrome and Firefox , tick it with an eyeball icon next to the dependent line of products . And you do n’t need to snub the flagged emails to protect your concealment : Ugly Email also blocks email trailing services , so you may open up the sketchy subject matter without tipping off the sender .
It ’s important to note that Ugly Email does n’t occlude every electronic mail tracker senders may be using . So far it work on nearly 30 of the most uncouth tracker , include MailChimp , TinyLetter , and Postmark .
you may barricade even more trailing service by changing your email background . InGmail , go to configurations , scroll down to Images , and select " Ask before display external image . " Most of these services habituate an invisible , single - pixel effigy to memorialize whether or not an email has been view , so blocking unwanted images is one way to stop this from happening .
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