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This has absolutely picked up recently! It doesn't help their brand in my case, as I put them into the "Overly Aggressive Vendor" folder for future reference wh
by Nagyman 10y ago
This has absolutely picked up recently! It doesn't help their brand in my case, as I put them into the "Overly Aggressive Vendor" folder for future reference when I'm actually looking at purchasing services.
Those reply.io emails that look like they're from a real person are a grey area of marketing. I think it's deceptive and places undue social pressure to reply. Sometimes I do reply, but only when I get annoyed. In such cases, I turn the tables and start trying to sell them adventure travel (G Adventures). Sadly, we also use Criteo; thankfully adblockers block Tealium tag manager by default anyway.
When I saw OPs article screenshots, I actually suspected that Criteo had harvested the email address from the Forgot Your Password screen. This isn't uncommon – VE Interactive (I've mentioned them before), reads forms for email address fields and onBlur, they capture it and send marketing emails later. I _think_ this type of behaviour is supposed to be limited to cart abandonment situations, but I'll bet an incorrectly configured tag would target all forms.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoWhen I started getting these, I called out the companies that did it. Kisi (getkisi.com) spammed me a few times and I called them out on it on Twitter with this tweet: "Hey @KISI - Spamming harvested emails is going to get your startup the wrong kind of attention." Their response was to block me. And continue to spam me. I can't imagine doing business with a company like that.
- gorhill 10y ago> thankfully adblockers block Tealium tag manager by default anyway Most ad blocker do not block Tealium by default. For blockers such as Adblock Plus or AdBlock, one must explicitly enable EasyPrivacy (which is enabled by default in uBlock Origin).