Is ClickFunnels Tracking Your Email? How to Block It

ClickFunnels email tracking is why the online coach behind that "free training" invite knows whether you, specifically, opened it. Info marketers love ClickFunnels because the webinar page and the checkout live in the same account as the email list. That convenience cuts both ways. The database sending the launch sequence also logs whether you read it and clicked, then keeps that record next to anything you eventually paid for. We read ClickFunnels' own documentation, then checked its DNS and its tracking server directly on 17 September 2026. Here is what holds up.

Key Takeaways

• ClickFunnels' changelog states that "Email open tracking now works reliably for Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and other email clients that use image proxies."
• A contact's Emails tab in ClickFunnels shows whether every email ClickFunnels sent that person "was delivered, opened, or clicked," alongside an Orders tab listing that person's purchases.
• All six ClickFunnels sender domains we checked publish a cf2mail subdomain that points by CNAME to mailer.myclickfunnels.com, and that host returned a 302 redirect for a tracked /click/ link when we tested it on 17 September 2026.
• The SPF record for mailer.myclickfunnels.com authorizes the 141.193.71.0/24 address block, which ARIN registers to ClickFunnels, so the tracking runs on infrastructure ClickFunnels controls rather than on a shared ESP domain.
• ClickFunnels documents no setting that turns open or click tracking off, and its privacy policy, last updated 17 February 2026, does not mention email pixels.

Does ClickFunnels Track Email Opens?

Yes, ClickFunnels 2.0 records opens for broadcasts and for workflow emails, and it says so in several places. The broadcast performance stats page separates Total opens, where repeat opens by one person all count, from Unique Opens, and it reports the average time recipients take to open. Clicks get the same split.

The line that matters most for Gmail users sits in the ClickFunnels improvements changelog: "Email open tracking now works reliably for Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and other email clients that use image proxies." Plenty of people assume Gmail's image proxy hides their opens. ClickFunnels treated the proxy as a bug to fix, and says it fixed it.

Opens also drive automation. The workflow trigger reference lists an Email Broadcast Open trigger that "initiates the workflow when a contact opens an email broadcast," plus matching Click triggers. Opening the replay reminder can itself decide which pitch you get next.

What Does the Sender See About You Personally?

The sender sees your individual engagement, not just a percentage. ClickFunnels' guide to the Send Email workflow step tells creators to "Enter the contact's name or email address to see if they were included in any metrics, such as Sends, Opens, Unique Opens, or Clicks."

Your contact profile goes further. A changelog entry introducing the contact Emails tab promises "Every broadcast, workflow email, and system email sent to the contact," each labelled with its delivery and engagement status. The contact profile overview describes the tabs sitting next to it:

• Activity: pageviews "including timestamps and links," plus visits
• Orders: "all orders placed by the contact, including the order number, date, and status"
• Enrollments: the courses you joined, with progress
• Marketing: the workflow runs and broadcasts you were part of

Put together, one contact record can show that you opened the day three launch email, skipped the replay, visited the sales page and have not bought. That is a sales lead score with your name on it.

How Does ClickFunnels Put a Price on Your Open?

ClickFunnels converts engagement into money per head. The Revenue section of the broadcast stats reports Total revenue, revenue Per Recipient, Per Unique Open and Per Unique Click, each described as "approximate."

Most coverage of email tracking stops at "they know you opened it." The more interesting part here is the denominator. A revenue per unique open figure only exists if every open is counted, so your open is a line item in the creator's math for whether a launch paid off. ClickFunnels does not document the attribution window or how a purchase gets linked back to a particular email, so treat the exact mechanics as unknown.

Where Do ClickFunnels Tracked Links Go?

The evidence points to mailer.myclickfunnels.com, reached either directly or through a cf2mail subdomain on the sender's own domain. ClickFunnels' email DNS records guide lists DKIM, SPF, DMARC and CNAME records and gives include:mailer.myclickfunnels.com as the SPF value. It never says what the CNAME is for. DNS answers that:

• Every cf2mail hostname we queried is a CNAME to mailer.myclickfunnels.com, including cf2mail.expertsecrets.com and cf2mail.clickfunnels.com on ClickFunnels' own domain. Both expertsecrets.com and funnelhackinglive.com publish v=spf1 include:mailer.myclickfunnels.com -all.
• mailer.myclickfunnels.com resolves to 141.193.71.101, whose reverse DNS is cf65.mailer.myclickfunnels.com, inside a /24 that ARIN lists under the organization CLICKFUNNELS.
• Its SPF record also authorizes four Amazon addresses and include:sendgrid.net.

Then we hit the server. A public urlscan.io capture from 12 September 2022 recorded a link of the form mailer.myclickfunnels.com/click/e2905778/H…/s9cb9b64a56. Requesting it again on 17 September 2026 returned HTTP/1.1 302 Found to its destination, and the identical path on http://cf2mail.expertsecrets.com did the same. Change the final signature and the server answers "error: invalid link (invalid security code)." A sibling /open/ path runs its own token check, while an invented path returns 404.

For developers, that link shape matches segment for segment the click format in the GreenArrow Engine tracking documentation: an H segment holding base64 text, an optional q segment for the query string, and an s signature. Decoding the H segment of the 2022 link gives default220907,t1,https://t.co/ktKRcmSyao. The match points strongly to GreenArrow, a commercial mail server, but ClickFunnels has not confirmed it.

ClickFunnels 2.0 vs ClickFunnels Classic

The two products handle mail differently, so the tracking host differs too. Classic leans heavily on outside providers: its SMTP integrations page lists SparkPost, Mandrill, Mailgun, SendGrid and Amazon SES. A 9 September 2022 capture shows a Classic link wrapped twice, first by the Classic app as app.clickfunnels.com/queued_emails/…/click and then again inside a mailer.myclickfunnels.com redirect.

ClickFunnels 2.0 sends through its own mailer by default, but creators can plug in SendGrid or Mailgun. The SMTP connection guide says a webhook then reports "delivery, opens, clicks, and bounces" back into ClickFunnels. No cf2mail link does not mean no tracking. It may just mean a different provider's pixel, like the Mailgun setup we found in our Kajabi email tracking investigation.

How Do You Spot a ClickFunnels Email?

Hover before you click, then check the raw message. Our walkthrough on how to detect email tracking pixels in Gmail covers the technique in depth. For ClickFunnels specifically, look for:

• Link hosts: anything beginning cf2mail. or pointing at mailer.myclickfunnels.com, with a /click/ path.
• The footer: a "Powered by ClickFunnels" link, unless the creator switched on the Hide 'Powered by' Branding option in email general settings.
• Headers: in Gmail's Show original, Received lines naming a mailer.myclickfunnels.com server, which is what the sending IP's reverse DNS predicts. We have not seen a live header, so treat this as a strong hint rather than proof.

One implication for blockers: every creator gets their own cf2mail hostname. A blocklist keyed only on mailer.myclickfunnels.com misses links written as cf2mail.somecoach.com, so pattern matching on the subdomain matters more here than with Kajabi's single shared tracking host.

Can a Creator Turn ClickFunnels Tracking Off?

Not through any setting ClickFunnels documents. The general email settings cover the marketing contact address, the unsubscribe footer, the branding link and From addresses. Open and click tracking do not appear. GreenArrow itself supports a per link data-ga-notrack attribute, but we found no ClickFunnels documentation exposing it. Your privacy cannot depend on the sender's choices, because the sender does not appear to have one.

How to Block ClickFunnels Email Tracking in Gmail

Start with the free steps, then decide whether you want a tool doing it automatically. Our fuller guide on how to block email tracking in Gmail goes deeper on each.

1. Turn off automatic images. Per Google's Gmail images help page: Settings, See all settings, the Images section, "Ask before displaying external images," then Save Changes.
2. Do not trust the proxy alone. Google says senders cannot use image loading to learn about your computer or location, yet concedes "senders may know whether you've opened an email that has an image." ClickFunnels' changelog confirms it counts those proxied opens.
3. Avoid the redirect. If a link starts with cf2mail, type the creator's site into your browser or search for the webinar instead. Clicking confirms a live, interested reader.
4. Add a blocker for the messages you do open with images on.

For how these extensions work under the hood, see our breakdown of email tracker Chrome extensions.

What This Means for Your Inbox

Info marketing runs on scarcity sequences: cart closes tonight, last chance, final hours. ClickFunnels lets a creator aim those emails at people who opened the webinar invite but did not buy, and its open and click triggers make that easy to automate. Blocking the pixel does not stop the emails. It stops you being sorted into the most aggressive follow up bucket because you glanced at one.

For compliance teams, responsibility sits with the creator. ClickFunnels' Data Processing Addendum states that for end user data "you act as the Controller" while ClickFunnels acts as processor. The European Data Protection Board's Guidelines 2/2023, adopted 7 October 2024, name email pixels explicitly: "the sender may include a tracking pixel to detect when the receiver reads the email," and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive applies. A coach mailing EU subscribers needs consent, or a valid exemption, for every open ClickFunnels counts. Our overview of EU email tracking consent rules lays out the obligations.

Meanwhile, the ClickFunnels privacy policy talks about browser cookies but says nothing about pixels in email. The disclosure burden lands on each individual creator instead.

What We Could Not Verify

We did not have a live ClickFunnels 2.0 email to dissect, so the exact open pixel URL and image format remain unconfirmed; we confirmed only that an /open/ handler exists on the tracking host. The GreenArrow identification rests on URL format, not on a statement from ClickFunnels. We could not determine which ClickFunnels mail uses the SendGrid include, or which DKIM selector ClickFunnels assigns. ClickFunnels' revenue documentation also leaves the attribution window unstated. Check your own messages with Show original before drawing conclusions about a specific sender. For another creator platform with a similar contact record, compare Keap's email tracking.