Bananatag will know whether the recipient has read your Email

It is likely the occurrence of a situation where you somehow help the knowledge of the addressee read your email or not. Today we tell about the service, which makes it likely to notify the user of the fact of opening recipient of his letters, and is convenient statistics on the percentage of read letters and referrals: them.

Service called Bananatag and works extremely simple: after installing the appropriate add-on for Chrome or Firefox and registration process in the system, sending a letter GMail interface will be a new button Track & Send, which in addition to sending letters to activate the mechanism tracking.

How does the tracking

Actually, for this and it is necessary to create an account in the service. When you click Track & Send in an invisible picture added 1x1 pixel, which is located server Banantag, and reference to it is generated with reference to your account and is unique to each letters. When the recipient receives a letter, email interface will offer him a display embedded in an image. If he agrees (which happens quite often), Bananatag server captures the image and appeal to It sends you a notification in the form of an e-mail with an indication of the original message that was read.

Also in this report contains a reference to more detailed data, including the location of the recipient at the time of opening the letter.

It is important to understand two things: the recipient does not always include the display of images, as well as the fact that the opening of the letter does not mean reading it.

In addition to tracking opening Bananatag can display transition track links that you add to the letter. By pressing the same Track & Send, and the presence of the letter links, service devious way "finalize" it so as to be able to fix the fact of the transition through it. Data on transitions, as well as general statistics on sent letters contained in the service control panel.

How to protect yourself from it

The easiest way: do not display images for the letters, the sender is unfamiliar to you, and the title does not imply the presence of media content. Well, not to light up when you click on the link, you should pay attention to the text in the lower left corner of the browser when you move the mouse cursor reference. If the address is different from the actual title of the link and the destination is not familiar to you, then you should not pass over it.

restrictions

Free version of the service imposes serious restrictions on the user and allows you to track up to five letters a day. The full version removes this limitation, but it will cost $ 5 / month.

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