alt Hacker NewsFriendly reminder when you click a link in a Gmail message, Google's servers also make a separate HTTP request for that link.
For your safety I'm sure.
Friendly reminder when you click a link in a Gmail message, Google's servers also make a separate HTTP request for that link.
For your safety I'm sure.
Why do they need to even do that? They already know the link from the email body. This is some urban myth.
If it is for click tracking there are far efficient ways to do that.