You can see this in action yourself using Chrome's Dev Tools. Open Dev
Tools, then their Settings, and turn on "Auto-open DevTools for popups".
Then, click any link in the Gmail web app. You'll see you go via
google.com/url?q=original_url_here. Since they're doing this with
JavaScript, the links look like they're going to open the real URL, but
they *don't.*

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 10:44, Mat Gadd <dra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Exactly that, yes. We've disabled all click tracking that we can, but
> Gmail has its own redirect which causes Safari's privacy features to kick
> in. (Some?) Gmail users are unable to use the password reset emails.
>
> On Thursday, 21 February 2019 01:03:54 UTC, Philip James wrote:
>>
>> Mat, are you saying you're seeing Safari still blocking, even with click
>> tracking turned off, because GMail itself is inserting a redirect?
>>
>> PJJ
>> http://philipjohnjames.com
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:46 AM Mat Gadd <dra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We're also now seeing Gmail users complain that the password reset links
>>> don't work, even after we disabled click tracking. It seems that Google are
>>> inserting their own click tracking into users' emails, which is… weird?
>>>
>>> The markup of links is transformed to the following (where … is our
>>> original URL):
>>>
>>> <a href="…" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="
>>> https://www.google.com/url?q=…";>Link text here</a>
>>>
>>> Gmail is a *huge* provider of emails, and they make up around 54% of our
>>> user base. Anyone using the Gmail web app can no longer reset their
>>> password simply by clicking the link in the email.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 12:51:22 UTC, Perry Roper wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It would appear that this affects a large number of users. We're also
>>>> experiencing this in the following configurations.
>>>>
>>>> - Mailgun click tracking enabled + Safari 12.0 on MacOS or any browser
>>>> in iOS 12
>>>> - Clicking the link in the Gmail app or web app (Mailgun click tracking
>>>> disabled) + Safari 12.0 on MacOS or any browser in iOS 12.
>>>>
>>>> All iOS 12 browsers and MacOS Safari users using the Gmail app, or in
>>>> any email client if the site they are requesting a password from uses link
>>>> tracking.
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 22 November 2018 20:43:15 UTC+7, Mat Gadd wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I raised a ticket <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29975>
>>>>> regarding this and was directed here to discuss the topic. The summary is
>>>>> that the combination of using click-tracking redirects (which are popular
>>>>> with a variety of email providers) with the Django contrib.auth password
>>>>> reset views does not work in Safari on macOS and iOS as of the latest 
>>>>> major
>>>>> versions.
>>>>>
>>>>> It took me quite a long time to work out what was happening, so I
>>>>> wanted to at least raise a ticket where other people might find it, but 
>>>>> was
>>>>> also hoping to start a discussion around how else the problem could be
>>>>> mitigated. An option to disable the internal token redirect might be
>>>>> useful, but that then re-opens the token up to being leaked via the
>>>>> HTTP_REFERER header.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>  - Mat
>>>>>
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