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Now the CEO is getting praised on Twitter but this doesn’t address the main complaint which is the read status itself. Yes, location made it worse, but that data was mostly bunk anyway because Gmail (and probably others) will show the location of the Gmail server and not the user themselves.

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It does address it. He specifically says that it is table stakes for his software and that they are leaving it in. You may not like that but it is addressed.

Personally I like that response, though I think they have legal problems in some jurisdictions. They didn’t try to weasel word their way out.

You can still get location data from any email on an external mail client (mail.app, Mail app, etc with images loaded). Gmail only proxies images in the browser client (and maybe the the mobile app?).

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