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Some think that there should be a separate button they should push after reading an email, but this requires human action and decreases the likelihood that a user would see the button and activate it. \u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Privacy\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>There’s another major issue associated with read receipts and one that is a core feature of StartMail: privacy! It’s rather invasive to automatically enable read receipts. The New York Times wrote about this\u003Cspan> \u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/22/business/software-that-tracks-e-mail-is-raising-privacy-concerns.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twenty years ago!\u003C/a>\u003Cspan> \u003C/span>The privacy invasion of tracking read receipts often pops up as a topic of debate. Last year, Superhuman got negative publicity because they\u003Cspan> \u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2019/07/superhuman-is-spying-on-you\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invasively recorded how many times you’ve opened and email\u003C/a>. Additionally, they tracked your location when the email was opened! \u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>At StartMail, we value your privacy, so we don’t support sending back these read receipt notifications for incoming messages that request them. Many marketeers found their way around this by trying to load specific tracking images inside of their emails. This is one of the reasons StartMail doesn’t load external images by default. 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