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These services seem to be increasingly popular, as measured by my support load of tickets from users who are unable to complete the signup flow on my SaaS becau

• aetherspawn 5y ago
  On a related note.. I use Bitdefender business email security. But this also applies to Sophos Email Security, or something else like it. When you receive an email, all links are replaced with links that bounce through the gateway, which downloads the page first and looks for malicious redirects, scans it for malicious fingerprints, etc. Then it shows you the chain of redirects and there's a button to actually proceed to the site. On some sites, they require you to login to activate the account, and this scan eats up the activation token. So when you click through, it errors up like "this token is already used", and you can't activate your account anymore on the real visit. Happens on enough sites to be annoying.
  • scoot 5y ago
    Which also has the effect of making it impossible to spot obviously fraudulent emails from the domain they link to. Not that this is foolproof.
    • Cerium 5y ago
      Yes! And our It department still gives us a mandatory training on how to look at links before clicking.