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...which then marks all these newsletters as scams, since the link usually first points to analytics site?
by amenod 7y ago
...which then marks all these newsletters as scams, since the link usually first points to analytics site?
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThey should just collect stats on their own servers.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoThis might come as a surprise to you, but every company doesn't have infinite developer time to reinvent things which already exist.
- boomlinde 7y 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 7y agoThat's obviously not the hard part.
- boomlinde 7y 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 7y agoSounds to me it’s working as intended.
- chipperyman573 7y 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!"