Is Right Inbox Tracking Your Email? How to Block It

Short answer: if your correspondent installed Right Inbox and toggled its tracking feature, yes — they know exactly when you opened their email, and how many times you went back to reread it. Right Inbox email tracking works through an invisible pixel slipped into the message body, and it reports back to the sender without ever asking you. You never see a notification. You never click "accept." The receipt just happens, silently, the moment your inbox loads the message.

This guide explains how Right Inbox email tracking works under the hood, how to spot a tracked message, and how to block the read receipts entirely.

Key Takeaways

• Right Inbox is a Gmail extension used by more than 250,000 people that adds open and click tracking, reminders, and scheduled sending. Source: Chrome Web Store
• The tracking works through a 1x1 invisible image pixel inserted at send time; when your email client loads it, the sender sees the open time and a running open count.
• Right Inbox's free tier includes 5 tracked emails per month, so tracking is available to every user at no cost — recipients are never asked for consent. Source: Right Inbox pricing
• France's data protection authority, the CNIL, has stated that email tracking pixels require prior consent under Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Source: CNIL
• Recipients can block the tracking by disabling remote images in Gmail or by using a tracker blocking extension that strips pixels automatically.

Is Right Inbox Tracking Your Email?

If the sender uses Right Inbox with tracking enabled, your email is being tracked — every open, and every link click if they switched that option on too. There is no opt in on your side and no visible indicator inside the message itself. Right Inbox's own help documentation confirms that senders can check their Sent folder to see how many times an email was opened and how many times links were clicked, with real time notifications popping up the moment it happens.

The sender experience looks a lot like a messaging app. Tracked emails show checkmark indicators in the sender's Gmail: a tracked message that has been opened gets the double checkmark treatment, and hovering reveals the timestamp and open count. The recipient sees none of this.

You're not powerless, though. The pixel only works if your mail client fetches it, and that's exactly the behavior you can control. If you want a broader primer on the technique before diving into Right Inbox specifics, see our guide on how to tell if your email is being tracked.

What Is Right Inbox?

Right Inbox is a Gmail productivity extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge that bundles email tracking with scheduling, recurring emails, reminders, private notes, templates, signatures, and follow up sequences. The Chrome Web Store listing shows 250,000+ users and a 4.7 star average across more than 12,000 reviews. It also appears in the Google Workspace Marketplace, which makes it easy for entire companies to roll out.

The pricing structure matters for recipients. Right Inbox's free plan includes 5 tracked emails per month, along with 10 reminders and 5 templates; paid plans starting at $7.95 per month remove the caps entirely. Source: Right Inbox pricing.

Run the numbers on that free tier and the scale becomes clear: 250,000 users with 5 free tracked emails each is a ceiling of 1.25 million tracked messages every month before a single user pays a cent — and paid users track without limits. That is one extension, in one ecosystem. Boomerang, Mailtrack, GMass, and dozens of similar tools layer the same pixel technique on top of Gmail. We covered the closest sibling in Is Boomerang Tracking Your Email? — the mechanics are nearly identical, which means the defense is too.

To be fair to Right Inbox: most of its features are genuinely useful productivity tools, and tracking is opt in for the sender. The problem is that the other party to the conversation — you — never gets a vote.

How Does Right Inbox Email Tracking Work?

Right Inbox tracking works by embedding a unique, invisible image — a 1x1 transparent pixel — into the HTML of the email at send time. The sender clicks the eye icon in Gmail's compose window, chooses whether to track opens, link clicks, or both, and hits send. From that point the mechanics are automatic:

1. The pixel gets a unique URL. Each tracked email carries an image reference tied to that specific message and recipient.
2. Your email client fetches it. When you open the email and your client loads remote images, it requests that unique image from the tracking server.
3. The server logs the request. The fetch itself is the read receipt: timestamp, open count, and — depending on how images are loaded — hints about your device.
4. The sender gets notified. Right Inbox surfaces the data as checkmarks on the message, hover details showing when and how many times it was read, and corner notifications when opens happen live.

Link click tracking works the same way, just one layer up: the links in the email are rewritten to pass through a redirect server first, so each click is logged before you reach the real destination.

One important caveat cuts in your favor. Gmail routes all remote images through its own proxy servers, as Google documents in its image handling support page. The proxy hides your IP address and rough location from trackers — but it still fetches the pixel, so the open event itself still gets through. Gmail's proxy blunts the tracking; it does not block it. We break down exactly what leaks and what doesn't in our explainer on Gmail read receipts and how they work.

How Can You Tell If an Email Was Sent With Right Inbox Tracking?

You can usually detect a tracked email by inspecting its images or by using an extension that flags pixels for you. Signs to look for:

• Tiny remote images from tracking domains. Use Gmail's "Show original" option (the three dot menu on any message) and search the HTML for img tags with width="1" and height="1", or image URLs containing long unique identifiers.
• Rewritten links. Hover over a link in the email. If the status bar shows a redirect domain instead of the destination the text claims, click tracking is active.
• A blocker that warns you. Pixel blocking extensions display an icon on tracked messages, turning detection into something you don't have to think about.

Sales and marketing emails are the most likely carriers, but Right Inbox's free tier means tracking shows up in one to one personal email too — a recruiter checking whether you read their offer, a landlord watching for your reply, an ex confirming you still open their messages. Our detection guide walks through each method with screenshots.

How Do You Block Right Inbox Tracking?

You block Right Inbox tracking by preventing the pixel from loading — either by disabling remote images in Gmail or by installing a blocker that strips trackers selectively. Three approaches, in order of bluntness:

Option 1: Turn off remote images in Gmail. Go to Settings → See all settings → General → Images, and select "Ask before displaying external images." No image fetch, no read receipt. The tradeoff is real: every newsletter, receipt, and photo arrives broken until you click to load images — and the moment you do, the pixel loads with everything else.

Option 2: Rely on Gmail's proxy alone. Doing nothing gets you partial cover. As noted above, Google's image proxy hides your IP and location. But open events and open counts still reach the sender, which is the data most Right Inbox users actually care about.

Option 3: Use a tracker blocking extension. This is the only approach that kills read receipts while keeping your email looking normal. Several tools do this, and they're worth comparing honestly:

• Ugly Email flags tracked messages with an eyeball icon and blocks known pixels in Gmail.
• PixelBlock takes a minimal approach, blocking pixels and showing a red eye on tracked mail.
• Trocker covers both pixels and tracked links, and works in Firefox as well as Chrome.
• Gblock blocks tracking pixels using an automatically updated blocklist, so newly minted tracking domains get caught without waiting for an extension update, and it strips click tracking from links so the URL you click is the URL you visit. It runs entirely inside Gmail with no separate dashboard to manage.

Whichever you pick, the effect on Right Inbox senders is the same: their checkmarks stay grey. The email reads as unopened no matter how many times you actually read it.

Did You Ever Consent to Being Tracked?

No — and that gap between practice and consent is closing fast, at least in Europe. France's data protection regulator, the CNIL, put email tracking pixels through a public consultation launched on June 12, 2025, and its recommendation treats pixels the same way the law treats cookies: they fall under Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, meaning senders need explicit prior consent before embedding them. The CNIL went further than many expected, proposing that consent for tracking be collected separately from consent to receive marketing email in the first place.

We covered the full ruling and what it means for everyday inboxes in France Just Made Email Tracking Illegal Without Consent. The short version: a sales rep in Paris firing off a tracked follow up through a Gmail extension is now on shaky legal ground. A sales rep in Chicago faces no equivalent rule.

That asymmetry is the part most coverage misses. Regulation moves one jurisdiction at a time, but tracking pixels travel with the email — a Right Inbox user anywhere on earth can track a recipient in any country. Until consent rules are global, the only protection that follows you is the one installed in your own browser.

The Bottom Line

Right Inbox is a capable productivity tool with a surveillance feature bolted on, and its 250,000+ users get read receipts on you by default the moment they toggle tracking — see the Chrome Web Store listing for the scale. You were never asked. You can still refuse.

Disable remote images if you want the blunt fix. Install a pixel blocker like Gblock if you want tracked emails neutralized automatically while your inbox keeps working exactly as before. Either way, when that next tracked message lands, the sender's double checkmark never turns green — and when you open your email, on your schedule, that stays your business.