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Ugly Email extension[1] can inform and block email tracking pixels on Gmail.

[1]https://uglyemail.com/



Ironically, the Firefox version of this extension requests permissions to inspect all domains, not just Gmail -- indicating that the extension itself may be performing tracking.

I can't tell offhand whether the Chrome version does the same.


I can confirm that in chrome it accesses only gmail.com and in general we can set access permissions to extensions on Chrome[1], for Ugly Email I can see that accessing other domains are disabled by default.

As for Firefox, the reviews seem to tell otherwise, it's not been updated for over 2 years (same for chrome as well).

[1]https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769?p=...




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