Reviews & Comments of PixelBlock chrome extension

works perfectly

works great, no complaint. nice work and thanks!

Currently working as tested with Mailtrack. Thank you.

Used to work well but now I can't see the "crossed red-eye" icon. It used to reassure me that it's doing it's job. Any idea @Omar Qureshi?

This is a great addition to any browser in the age of political ad targeting. Everyone should install it.

Can't see the red eye anymore after switching between my accounts on the same device.

Still great after all these years. Thanks Omar.

I don't actually have a way to verify whether or not this works as intended, but I do see the red icon letting me know that trackers are detected, and it doesn't seem to have any negative impact on the format of my emails.

I have been using this for about 4 days and it has shown which Amazon sellers and their "backers" who is watching where I forward a mail. I like to protect our IP addresses and more. Thank you to the developer and will be more aware now.

please add support to outlook.office.com as well

From a display standpoint, PixelBlock is easy to understand and takes not effort on the user other than a simple install. The reason for the low review is due to PixelBlock clearly not working after basic user testing. I installed PixelBlock on my primary email account; Under a secondary, external account, I installed a free email tracker -- in this case Mailtrack -- and sent my primary account a tracked email; Immediately after opening the tracked email from the primary account, the secondary account received a response that the email had been opened. This was tested 3x for basic consistency. I've emailed the developer (omar.w.qureshi [at] gmail.com) a screenshot showing one occurrence to help their team (as well as clearly describing above with app used); however, I will be uninstalling PixelBlock as it clearly does not work as designed.

on every email it says that it blocked tracking but that the source was unknown. all its done so far is block pictures in emails from restraints and my work emails.

Hi, How did i know if the app works, in the eye of the email tracker shows 1791 mails blocked but that number havent move since 1 month ago and nor sure if the blocker still working

Just doesn't work unfortunately

Used for years, never had issues. Thanks!

I'm not a techie, so I don't really know how to determine of it prevents the tracking like advertised. But if I assume it does, then I still have to turn it off because it breaks images in emails I receive from trusted sources.

No longer works for the last couple of weeks. It shows the red eye, that trackers exist but still load them and notify the sender. I know because I sometimes add trackers myself and since the last few weeks it started showing me open notifications for my own emails when I open them, something that didn't use to happen before.

5 stars for working all this while.... BUT IT HAS STOPPED WORKING TODAY. I use Streak to track outgoing email and Pixelblock to block tracking on incoming .... Till today, whenever I opened an email Sent by me (hence tracked by Streak), a "seen" would not get registered because PixelBlock would block Streak's tracking attempt. This is no longer working. Streak registers a "seen" when I see my own sent email (purportedly protected by pixelblock). Ergo, pixelblock has stopped functioning. Please fix.

Using this extension for many years, works great. However, I have few questions/suggestions: 1) In the new Gmail eye icon is not shown, however, pixel trackers are still blocked. Will be nice to have the eye icon back. 2) Why does this extension requires access to all website? I limited it to https://mail.google.com/* and it still works.

They break all of my ad images when using Google Ads. I have to disable it from Chrome to manage my paid search campaigns.

Hi PixelBlock Team, This has reference to the receiving of mail from one of my known person and it seems to be a tracking one. The mail included a button texted as "click here to open few message" and clicking on the same resulted into opening of various links. It totally seems to some kinda malware/ hidden app to track my account and phone. Found no help from PixelBlock on this. Please do suggest in order to be clear on this. Thanks Shubham Sharma

No longer working with the new gmail

Just downloaded the latest version and tried this extension for the first time. I sent a message with tracking to myself from another of my email addresses. When I checked the email, Pixelblock said that that the tracking had been blocked. BUT when I went back to the email address I sent from, I still received notification that the message was opened.

Why does extension needs to read the browsing history?

Having the same problem as David Rosas below - images appear, disappear and then sometimes reappear when message is reloaded - added extension Aug 10

Version: 2018.08.01 Updated: July 31, 2018 The new gmail support is better - but it is still not working correctly. If you have message preview on and you go back and forth between emails the images often show but they will disappear. Occasionally in some emails they don't show at all.

Is quite interesting to see how many TRACKERS are involved online nowadays! Lately have been seeing this show how many Spam/Phishing emails although not playing the agme of responding are using such tactics to tell if they have a valid target. This should keep them guessing!

It could be helpful, but extension is clearly broken if "always show images" in gmail results in pixelblock showing only broken image icons.

Used to work well, however, with the new version of gmail it blocks all images from loading. I am using the most recent version of the app.

It recently started blocking pictures from loading

Does not work :( It also removes a valid images which are not used for tracking.

Love it, works great! Highly recommended.

No longer works on New Gmail. Darn...

Causes images to be blocked in the new gmail

This extension worked fine until the new version of Gmail was released -- then it blocked ALL images. Oddly, you can see the images loading first, then they're killed, so not sure if this method was EVER truly effective.

This used to work great but doesn't seem to be compatible with new Gmail

Does not work with new GMail. Used to work before that.

Need to disable. Was stopping embedded pics in Gmail, which I need to see.

Works good. Surprised by how many emails I receive are tracking my opening.

Already working great. Straight away noticing emails with tracking pixels in my inbox the moment I installed this. This addon reminds me of the glasses in the movie They Live, that show the truth of the world. Great addon, needs far more users!

does its job

Amazing solution to a huge, pending privacy issue of the modern communication era. Thank you for this development Can I support you somewhere?

Thank you for this.

I just installed it after reading about it online. And I also installed mailtrack to track my sent emails. I tested PixelBlock by sending a test email to another email ID and PixelBlock just gave me notification that they blocked a tracking attempt. But Mailtrack still showed that my email was received and read. So seems it doesn't work.

Works great EXCEPT if you want to print or create a PDF file from a Gmail message. PixelBlock blocks the graphics and you get just graphic placeholders. No bueno. Tracking beacon pixels should be blocked, but not every pixel in every graphic on every page of every message. Fix this and I'll give you five stars.

Perfect, protects me and also tells me how sophisticated the emailer is :)

Works great!

There is no way to tell if it works unless you ask someone who has a tracker to let you know. Also, it breaks images in your emails!

Doesn't work - just stops notification from popping up. It still shows when you click for sidekick at least.

Great app, and securely blocks / notifies you if any sender is using a tracker when sending out emails.

nice one

This app just gives you the warm fuzzy feeling that it is actually blocking e-mail tracker pixels. It is not. I can confirm that it does not fool Streak CRM.

Outside sales reps be damned

Cannot believe it was so hard to find such an obvious and useful feature (or that it took me so long to figure out I needed it and it's not cool to have your email opens tracked!), why gmail doesn't include this as a feature from the off is beyond me, thankyou, very very much.

Works perfectly for known and unknown tracking attempts

thanks..you protect us from meddlesome guys

Works great! If you're not seeing it working it is likely that you practice good security and Pixelblock is in fact doing it's job. If you'd like to test if it works, add your email to an advertisement from Facebook that requires an email. Soon, youll be emailed and will see the RED EYE warning you that someone is attempting to track you. Good luck.

Best fricking tool I have installed with Chrome. Stops all the bozos who use yesware and outreach.io and toutapp from sending you millions of emails. It doesn't appear to work with Pardot emails however.

Worked great...while it worked. Just stopped working a couple days ago, and re-installing it did nothing. So, apparently this extension is currently "dead" :(

blocked images on other websites

Sometimes it works... sometimes it doesn't do anything....

Breaking images when I print in Chrome. Spaceholder for image but no image.

Works like a charm. Images come through just fine for me

Seems to just break ALL images in my emails.

it works for me

Just downloaded it today and tested it with an account I know has Sidekick but no red eye and confirmed by the recipient that they received a read notification....will be uninstalling

- need option to whitelist / turn off for specific email - some of the blocks are false-positive and block for no reason

Doesn't work.

Works well, but now how about Inbox support?

Was awesome, recently started breaking all images, no red eye. Would love to put this back to 5 stars.

It also blocks a lot of normal images in emails.

Says that there's tracking elements in emails that I know don't have any. They're from other personal email accounts I use that I know have no tracking elements in it. They may have an image in their signature, such as for social media, but this doesn't mean they are tracking my email. Also, most emails that it does find tracking elements, it says the source is "unknown" so it's not very helpful.

As a professional user, it is one of the best tools to block the email trackers, if you know how to use it.

Works great, no problems with images like some other reviewers are seeing

Blocks ALL images from ALL messages. Not a single one showed a red eye icon.

It's a great extension, but I removed 2 stars because for the last week or so it started making all images disappear. I wish when I clicked on the red eye icon, that it would let me see what was blocked and have an option to display an item of my choice.

hate it messes up images uploading in emails I want to see such a mess

Good..

Doesn't work. No red eye, just broken images, most of which are NOT pixel tracking.

this is brilliant working great surprising who tracks you,,

simple. seems to block pixel tracking as described.

You might be surprised how many companies use these to track you

This broke Drive (corrupted Google Sheets). Not worth the hassle until they fix it.

Works perfectly , tested with Signals/Sidekick . 1 star less because there is no way to unblock it

It works! Almost every single piece of promotional or corporate email in my Gmail turned out to have tracking embedded. Not that I really care about most, but it seems dishonest that the message would not tell me that they were tracking my response time etc, so now I am PixelBlocking them all. Honesty first, you advertisers you!

I installed this extension, but unfortunately it worked too well without enough options. I want the option to block all incoming tracking requests without blocking my outgoing tracking requests, currently sent via another extension (Streak). I realize this is a bit hypocritical, but that's territory I'm used to as an internet marketer.

it's working great.

useful and efficient - like it !

A good step in the fight for our online privacy. I didn't even know that they can track that much.

Super useful, especially with aggressive cold-emails.