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[Feature request] Disable/Remove/Tone down read receipts requests
Hi Michael!
I've always thought the need for read receipts in e-mail to be presented in an almost hostile way in Gmail, literally blocking you from anything with a pop-up until dismissed, and what's worst, this "confirmation" sends another e-mail which I've always found inelegant, but that's just opinion from someone for whom these are 100% pointless and have never sent one myself.
The request is for Simplify to be able to automatically block or ignore (like with e-mail trackers for instance) these requests, or at least be toned down and left as a side note when you move on to the next e-mail or back to the inbox, like "One or more senders in last conversation have requested a read receipt."
I've been using Gmail since the day it was launched, and I've never seen such a request in the UI.
I've never seen this either! Do you wish it always approved or denied them?
Lucky you, I just seem to get at least one every week, and it's not a Gmail exclusive actually.
Personally, I'd like them always denied, though I understand there may sometimes be a valid reason as a sender to know when your receiver has read your e-mail. This "confirmation" creates an e-mail for the sender only mentioning something in the lines of "XXX has read you e-mail on date-time" which is clutter in my view, and for my use case does not really provide any value.
What's worse, these reasonable requests do not expire ever, which means you will run into them even in old conversations and (likely though not confirmed) it might send a new receipt every time you do open the message if you chose to approve them.
Looks like this is only available on Edu and Workspace accounts: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1383374?hl=en
If you have admin access (or can talk to the person that does), you can auto-decline these via Workspace admin settings: https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/10636687?hl=en
Hmm, interesting. Should have expected such a policy to be available. Unfortunately, I can't even get my company to enable offline access so I'll just have to make do rejecting them as usual.
Understanding the behaviour can be changed internally in Gmail, feel free to close the issue if you consider no action should be taken. While a gentler UI for the prompt would be appreciated, IMO this is very low-priority and non-essential for any further time to be dedicated to.
I'll try to turn it on for my domain so I can learn more about this. If easy, I'm happy to add an option to always decline these for people in your position.
Or maybe an option to hide the dialog with some kind of small button that lets you accept or decline.
Either one would work for me personally! Second option would (maybe?) imply more UI work and yet another thing to monitor if Gmail decides to change its design for whatever reason, but you're more familiar with the technicals.