Udacity Bug Bounty - or, please stop tracking every link in your emails
Look, I know your company wants metrics. I know your boss wants to see the exact percentages of people who click on links in your emails. Your sales team are desperate to track conversions. Someone wants to optimise your funnel for reasons which are unclear to you, a lowly engineer. So you make the mistake of adding tracking to every email you send out. Including sensitive ones. I recently signed up to online learning platform Udacity. As part of registration, they want me to confirm my…
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