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Email marketers can't trust open rates inflated by Apple MPP and security scanners

.79
Demand — how loud & how many (score)
Willing to payImplicit
Momentum (7d) 17.8%
Cluster17 posts · 14 people
MarketplaceBraze Technology Partners
Updated3d ago
The story

The pain

We can't rely on open rates anymore because Apple Mail Privacy Protection pre-fetches tracking pixels for 30-50% of our lists, and corporate security filters do the same for clicks. This inflates our metrics with machine activity, making it impossible to tell real engagement from automated pre-fetches. We've had to shift to click rates, reply rates, and conversions as more honest signals, but even clicks aren't fully clean.

Evidence

What people said · 17 complaints, 14 people

Apple MPP pre-fetches the tracking pixel for a large share of your list (often 30-50%+ on B2C-heavy lists), corporate security filters do the same, so a big slice of "opens" are machines, not people.
Redditpitchpilot_hqSep 3
Since Apple MPP started pre-fetching images, I don't know how to interpret open rates anymore. It's like half of them are counted as soon as the email lands regardless if the lead actually read it.
Redditaeri_1485Aug 27
Clicks definitively hold up better than opens, but some security scanners and inbox providers click links themselves before anyone opens the message, the same way MPP fires the open pixel.
RedditGabbyFromKlaviyoSep 3
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Recency
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.95
Engagement
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.72
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