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soiltype 9 days ago

unless the product manager decided the link in the email is

track.monkey.exe/sus/path/spyware?c=behhdywbsncocjdb&b=ndbejsudndbd&k=uehwbehsysjendbdhjdodj

or something 2x–3x longer

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KingOfCoders 8 days ago | parent [-]

The question was "How do you know the email comes from that website? "

And the answer was, I can find out if the email is from abc.com by looking at the link, which should also be abc.com

I don't click in "track.monkey.exe". I don't click tracking links. I pay a lot of money for my newsletter provider because I can turn off (most) tracking links.

	▲	soiltype 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		The question was framed that way but in fact this conversation isn't about your personal resistance to a particular scam vector. Many sites do offload 100% of their emailing to 3rd party trackers. Therefore nobody can use those sites without engaging in 3rd party tracking. Therefore these sites have created an environment favorable for this scam vector.