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It’s mind-boggling to think that the founder expected to get away with this. Even if real emails had been used for the accounts, an atrociously low open rate st
by danielfoster 4y ago
It’s mind-boggling to think that the founder expected to get away with this. Even if real emails had been used for the accounts, an atrociously low open rate still would have exposed the scam.
- koolba 4y ago"Open rate" should be zero for any population that understands technology and cares about privacy. Granted that's a small slice of the real world population, but nobody actually wants people to know that they opened a particular email.
- snowwrestler 4y agoOpen rates have actually gone up for some privacy-oriented people because Apple’s “Mail Privacy” reports an open for every person using it, regardless of what they do.
- umeshunni 4y agoTheir statement, from another article: "After JPM rushed to acquire (Javice's) rocketship business, JPM realized they couldn't work around existing student privacy laws, committed misconduct and then tried to retrade the deal"
- rchaud 4y agoOpen rate numbers aren't reliable anymore after the iOS privacy update blocking tracking pixels.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y agoPretty sure they were unreliable before that. My email client doesn't load images by default for a reason.
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