What's up with automatic clicks?

Alyssa Dulin Dec 14th Deliverability Dispatch #003 ↓ A weekly newsletter to help you reach your audience. Today's newsletter is inspired by a reply I received from a lovely subscriber (thank you!). Here's what she said: Hi Alyssa! Question for you. I know that some email programs automatically mark emails as opened. But does this happen with clicks too? I just sent a newsletter and immediately there were over 1,000 clicks... seemed strange since I didn't even have that many opens in the same...