“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
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Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#2Not the least surprised. By accepting the EULA and using the service free of monetary charge, you are instead paying with the contents of your e-mails and adress-book.
Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#3Not the least surprised. By accepting the EULA and using the service free of monetary charge, you are instead paying with the contents of your e-mails and adress-book.
Another reason to run your own email server
Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#4Isn't the quick fix that you arrive at some page, and there have to press a button or load some JS to do some action? AFAIK most email providers (like Gmail) will also visit links. Therefore you shouldn't do actions directly on the GET request. For instance if you have an unsubscribe link and all you have to do is visit that address, most of your subscribers will be accidentally unsubscribed.
Same if you paste a link in Slack/FB/Discord/Twitter whatever, they will visit the page to create a preview. GET requests shouldn't have side effects.
Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#5>As of Feb 2017 Outlook (https://outlook.live.com/) scans emails
Makes me curious if only the free, online, Outlook does this. There's also paid O365 online Outlook and the fat client Outlook.
Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#6Not the least surprised. By accepting the EULA and using the service free of monetary charge, you are instead paying with the contents of your e-mails and adress-book.
Another reason to run your own email server
No. Another reason to pay professionals to run your email server for you.
Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#7There's a difference between adding the URLs to search engine results and accessing the URLs to scan for malware. The latter is quite common, lots of email hosts do that. It's not clear to me from the post if the former is actually happening - the author doesn't state that they found the links in Bing's results, just that they were accessed by BingBot.
Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#8There's a difference between adding the URLs to search engine results and accessing the URLs to scan for malware. The latter is quite common, lots of email hosts do that. It's not clear to me from the post if the former is actually happening - the author doesn't state that they found the links in Bing's results, just that they were accessed by BingBot.
I found them in Bing results
Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#9Isn't this just the "link preview" feature, that is enabled by default in outlook?
Many email clients generate link previews so that they can display a thumbnail of the webpage. Would seem to be necessary to filter out those referrers from the validate link
Re: “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
#10Not the least surprised. By accepting the EULA and using the service free of monetary charge, you are instead paying with the contents of your e-mails and adress-book.
If it’s Outlook doing the dirty work then running your own mail server won’t get rid of this problem. Outlook is the client reading the links regardless of mail server.
Also, somewhat a different topic, people that run their own mail servers might also still use Outlook.