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At least Thunderbird seems to do that: when an email has an <a> tag with text that looks like a URL but doesn't match the href, it throws the "this email is pro
by cesarb 8y ago
At least Thunderbird seems to do that: when an email has an <a> tag with text that looks like a URL but doesn't match the href, it throws the "this email is probably a scam" bar above the message.
- amenod 8y ago...which then marks all these newsletters as scams, since the link usually first points to analytics site?
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThey should just collect stats on their own servers.
- Godel_unicode 8y agoThis might come as a surprise to you, but every company doesn't have infinite developer time to reinvent things which already exist.
- boomlinde 8y agoThen they should be held accountable for their choice not to vet ads they send to their users. If this was enforced legally, a bunch of companies would suddenly be able to invest the "infinite time" required to register a damn click.
- Godel_unicode 8y agoThat's obviously not the hard part.
- boomlinde 8y ago"The hard part" can still be outsourced to a third party without resorting to redirection chains, either by sending the click information to them on the server-side or by sending it client side using a script. Either way, "the hard part" is generally undesirable to users because it compromises their privacy in order to manipulate them.
- layoutIfNeeded 8y agoSounds to me it’s working as intended.
- chipperyman573 8y agoSure but regular users will see it and think "this message means nothing, I got an email I know was from my bank the other day and I saw the banner there, too!"