Blocked Advertising Links in all Embarcadero Mails
Blocked Advertising Links in all Embarcadero Mails
We use internally a proxy filter system to avoid certain pages to be visited. This works for 99.9% of the normal use cases without any side effects.
But all the Embarcadero Links are redirected via en25.com. This is considered as a typical advertising and domain with no high reputation.
see e.g. http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz group “adv”.
I know we could allow a bypass. But I really do not like such strange links being fired from any of our development workstations (e.g. today email “Free Tools - Power Your Startup’s Development With Embarcadero” with link http://s608.t.en25.com/e/er?s=608&lid=18293&elqTrackId=52c3c97e7fe24308ad3c482c718ab173&elq=fc3aa86bd6984a449f6c9090ed416ad3....)
Am I the only one with such concerns?
http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz
We use internally a proxy filter system to avoid certain pages to be visited. This works for 99.9% of the normal use cases without any side effects.
But all the Embarcadero Links are redirected via en25.com. This is considered as a typical advertising and domain with no high reputation.
see e.g. http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz group “adv”.
I know we could allow a bypass. But I really do not like such strange links being fired from any of our development workstations (e.g. today email “Free Tools - Power Your Startup’s Development With Embarcadero” with link http://s608.t.en25.com/e/er?s=608&lid=18293&elqTrackId=52c3c97e7fe24308ad3c482c718ab173&elq=fc3aa86bd6984a449f6c9090ed416ad3....)
Am I the only one with such concerns?
http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz
Most vendors with even halfway decent marketing departments make a reasonable effort to partition their mailing lists between existing customers and prospective customers. I don't recall this ever happening with Delphi. I seem to be getting more emails targeting "new customers" now than ever before. The company simply does not care. Sadly, if you opt out, you won't get stuff targeted at you that you DO want. In fact, if you opt out of most list services, you're prevented from getting back on. So Embt has probably lost touch with a large portion of their former users because of this ignorant and inexcusable practice.
ReplyDeleteI don't quite understand why anyone would arbitarily expose a workstation containing valuable intellectual property to the internet in the first place. Even if the development is web related, there are ways to avoid such an exposure from the workstation -- email...? you got to be kidding that you are exposing your machine this way.
ReplyDeleteIt usually is better to be more concerned about the mistakes that you are making rather than those made by others.
OK. Thank you for all the feedback. Not a real problem for me as I do not follow any of the links with a 99.9% chance. Now I understand at least that ORACLE Eloqua is behind and EMBT does host the content of it's marketing campaigns on random Eloqua servers.
ReplyDeleteJennifer Powell you are fully right with your concerns. We run a clear separation of our E-Mail / Internet zone and the internal zones. But even the Internet Area is limited by content filters.