I think your contrarian view is biased and misleading.
The HTTP request for favicon of each email’s domain, which you hypothesized, might be the issue that Google was thinking of. However, your hypothesis has never been clearly stated during rounds of emails between the developer and Google.
Wouldn’t it be helpful to clarify an issue in reply to the developer, rather than having someone post “a contrarian view” afterwards?
It took less than a day to vote Pluto off from the list of planets, yet more than 12 years to put it back again.
August 24, 2006, the day that the plant Pluto was taken away from us, alerts me that science could be just another form of politics, occasionally — hopefully.
The HTTP request for favicon of each email’s domain, which you hypothesized, might be the issue that Google was thinking of. However, your hypothesis has never been clearly stated during rounds of emails between the developer and Google.
Wouldn’t it be helpful to clarify an issue in reply to the developer, rather than having someone post “a contrarian view” afterwards?