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Email Tracking Pixels: Are They GDPR Compliant? Risks, Rules & Alternatives

Most email marketing teams consider open rate tracking a standard operational metric — as routine as bounce rate monitoring or unsubscribe tracking. What most of those teams do not know is that the tracking pixel making that measurement possible has operated in a regulatory gray zone that closed definitively on April 14, 2026, when France's CNIL published its formal recommendation on email tracking pixels.