Absolutely they could. Although I doubt they do, it seems far more
   intrusive somehow...
   Then again, I don't use Gmail.
   John

   On August 23, 2016 6:05:45 PM EDT, Pinoaffe <pinoaffe@gmail.com> wrote:


     I'm guessing you can get around this by using IMAP or POP3 to read
     your
     email. I wonder what their monetization plan is for customers who
     read
     their mail with an email client?

     Can't they also change the links to redirects before imap and pop3
     download them? It's probably more work to implement, but still very
     possible.
     On 08/23/2016 10:57 PM, Layxt wrote:

     -------- Original Message --------
     Subject: For the love of Mining
     Local Time: August 23, 2016 1:16 PM
     UTC Time: August 23, 2016 8:16 PM
     From: grarpamp@gmail.com
     To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
     So for the past six months or so google has decided to infesting
     their
     gmail webmail with tracking redirectors on all things that look like
     links.
     To be expected, and fuck em straight to hell.
     But who else find it hilarious they chose 'usg' as the tracking
     parameter name ;)
     [1]http://www.google.com/url?q=http://<hostname>&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=<to
     ken>

     I'm surprised they didn't start doing this long ago. Lots of juicy
     data
     to mine there.
     I'm guessing you can get around this by using IMAP or POP3 to read
     your
     email. I wonder what their monetization plan is for customers who
     read
     their mail with an email client?

   --
   Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

References

   1. http://www.google.com/url?q=http://<hostname