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This is correct. This makes unique open counts much more reliable as it guarantees that the tracking image will be fetched. Before this change, one could never be certain how many people actually opened their email in gmail because some percentage of recipients would block images which naturally blocks loading the tracking image. Typically the tracking image is unique to each individual email sent.



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