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7:T488,<h2>Consent receipts vs covert tracking</h2><p>A read receipt is requested and can be refused; covert open-tracking is a hidden pixel that fires automatically. Blocking the consent receipt is a client setting; blocking the covert pixel needs a network-level blocker.</p><h2>Declining consent read receipts</h2><ul><li><strong>Outlook / Office 365:</strong> you are prompted to send or decline a receipt; choose decline, or set the option to never send.</li><li><strong>Gmail:</strong> receipts are limited to Workspace accounts and are sender-requested; consumer Gmail has no receipt to send.</li></ul><h2>Stopping covert open-tracking</h2><ol><li>Install Mailshade and opt into the mail clients you use.</li><li>Open a tracked message; requests to known tracker-pixel domains are cancelled via DNR.</li><li>Use the red-eye overlay and per-sender dashboard to review what the local scan detected.</li></ol><h2>Why settings alone are not enough</h2><p>Client settings only govern the receipts a sender openly requests. The majority of tracking is the silent pixel, which no setting exposes — blocking known tracker requests stops that known-domain signal.</p>3:["$","div",null,{"dangerouslySetInnerHTML":{"__html":"$7"}}]
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