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Re: Show HN: Gmelius 6 – Gmail just got better

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Post by sciencerobot »

I'm not sure if the privacy protection claims made by Gmelius are true.

The plugin claims that I am being tracked via tracking pixel (or other image) embedded in emails and that the trackers know when I read my email and where I read it from (from my IP address). Is this true? Google server attachments through a proxy. This would prevent trackers from seeing my IP address. If assets are cached or pre-downloaded by Google, then trackers wouldn't know when I read their emails either.

Gmelius might even decrease privacy. The plugin includes a JavaScript file hotlinked to inboxsdk.com. It's possible that inboxsdk.com is tracking users this way.

Re: Show HN: Gmelius 6 – Gmail just got better

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Post by mkuhn »

norswap wrote: post #17

The thing I lack in GMail (or other mail clients / services for that matter): the ability to rename conversations, as well as split/fork them according to my wishes. Anyone know of an alternative that does this?

Check out Streak: https://www.streak.com/

Re: Show HN: Gmelius 6 – Gmail just got better

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Post by xpressyoo »

sciencerobot wrote: post #21

I'm not sure if the privacy protection claims made by Gmelius are true. The plugin claims that I am being tracked via tracking pixel (or other image) embedded in emails and that the trackers know when I read my email and where I read it from (from my IP address). Is this true? Google server attachments through a proxy. This would prevent trackers from seeing my IP address. If assets are cached or pre-downloaded by Go…

Hi! Regarding your tracking remark, companies such as YesWare, MailTrack, MixMax (and so on) use pixel trackers. While such trackers are indeed made available through a Google proxy, the caching is overridable if you pass a no-cache header (http://blog.movableink.com/real-time-content-and-re-open-tra...). The Inbox SDK makes easier the interaction with Gmail's UI and does not transmit or index data.

Re: Show HN: Gmelius 6 – Gmail just got better

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Post by alooPotato »

sciencerobot wrote: post #21

I'm not sure if the privacy protection claims made by Gmelius are true. The plugin claims that I am being tracked via tracking pixel (or other image) embedded in emails and that the trackers know when I read my email and where I read it from (from my IP address). Is this true? Google server attachments through a proxy. This would prevent trackers from seeing my IP address. If assets are cached or pre-downloaded by Go…

We (Streak) also built the InboxSDK. One explicit goal was that we do not track user data. We do however track usage of certain SDK features but we log no PII info. Happy to answer any other questions about it.
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