Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about how to block email tracking in Gmail with Gblock.
Here are a few reasons why you should block email tracking:
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Reply to Messages with Confidence – Take ChargeBy blocking email trackers, you can reply confidently, assured that the sender can't collect data about your email interactions: They don't know when you opened their email, how many times you viewed it, or if you clicked on any links.
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Halt Spammers in Their TracksWhen you block embedded trackers you're in control, ensuring that spammers can't gather insights about your activity.
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Guard Yourself Against Persistent SalespeopleWhile many salespeople are great, some simply don't know when to stop. If you've been inundated by emails from an overly eager salesperson, it's likely they used a tracker to monitor your email behavior.
Gblock is a comprehensive solution for protecting your privacy in Gmail. It shields you from spy pixels and tracking links, offering robust protection against email tracking. Our proxy, fully anonymizes you by hiding your IP address from mail trackers. Our automated tracker detection logic ensures that we are always one step ahead of new trackers. There's no other Browser extension that offers the same level of protection! And of course, Gblock does not track any of your activity.
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- Spy pixel protection
- Automated tracker detection
- Link tracking protection
- Privacy-safe proxy anonymization
- Email customer support
- Software updates
Our proxies are available in North America and Europe. You will be connected to the closest location based on the country you select during sign-up. You can change this at any time in your Account settings.
Our proxy is privacy-safe, It never stores personal data. If you prefer, you can disable proxy anonymization from the account settings page. Please note that doing so will also disable tracking links protection
You can bypass the proxy by holding Shift and clicking the link. This will open the link in a new window, skipping the proxy.
Gblock detects the vast majority of email trackers and automatically blocks them. When a new tracker appears in an email you view, Gblock detects it in real-time and blocks it. Our current list includes 15770 trackers and is growing every day.
Here are just a few examples:
- ActionKit
- Adobe
- Amazon
- Campaign
- Campaign
- CloudHQ
- ConvertKit
- Customer.io
- DZone
- Drip
- Dropbox
- Eventbrite
- FreshMail
- GMass
- Hubspot
- Hunt
- Mailchimp
- Mailgun
- Mandrill
- Monitor
- PayPal
- Product
- Quora
- Salesforce
- SendGrid
- Signal
- Sparkpost
Found a sneaky tracker that Gblock missed? Write us at tracker@gblock.app.
You can create custom filters using the custom filters UI to block or allow custom trackers.
Gblock keeps your email activity private. Senders won't know you're using it, to them, it will just seem like you never opened their messages or interacted with any links.