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Rewrite tracking URLs

Open austinhuang0131 opened this issue 3 years ago • 7 comments

I use an Office 365 inbox and all my links are rewritten like this:

https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Faustinhuang0131%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caustinhuang%40sampleemailaddress.com%7Cb5f7ed0cd3ca4977a2d808d914a3b367%7C81824d4b6a574db49a15217b19b2f9e9%7C0%7C0%7C637563515598406011%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=y2j9T1cvMgtQNR29%2Bn8Svj0PNorZSZS7J2ZQJoNwV84%3D&reserved=0

When sampleemailaddress is replaced with my actual email address, it will visit the URL as indicated in the url parameter. So is it possible to extract that parameter and undo the rewrite? Thanks. (Note that the first nam10 is just my region)

austinhuang0131 avatar May 11 '21 22:05 austinhuang0131

This is a feature request and not a bug with MailTrackerBlocker right?

I've been looking into detracking links. Looks like it's possible to do here but not in all cases because the redirect link is sometimes encoded then scrambled. May need another set of rules for this one.

Will keep this in mind, thanks for sharing that URL.

apparition47 avatar May 12 '21 03:05 apparition47

Yeah that's an enhancement, sorry for not indicating

This one is pretty clear, you can also look up on GitHub for more examples of this

austinhuang0131 avatar May 12 '21 03:05 austinhuang0131

Yep, yours is clear but I've seen clickable hyperlinks that look like this where it isn't possible (e.g. SendGrid):

http://url9216.customers.gumroad.com/ls/click?upn=lxUZP-2FJG4eH36wcqVLdRrts4ZQQmWiM-2FBszgXWRtSoIlCchLU8TftB45jSHKRZZCbZrlIEHwZr-2FNsvxBm-2F2bYw-3D-3DUBQg_DtJU5KezLEf9Vl9dVV-2BNPAOv1VBd-2BHw4r3Vy6FLArsnkp2RxK5yBFTSJ3BPedpa9pppz2BX23sqnzmjt48Cdu-2B42fUVU1e9d5AflLTW2fgw4X39HJFTlZg8Mlcekh1nlIwt3-2F1mO7n4R0EJEj7AJdtvjg34UZZVTFFXqyN4a1wQJeR0vSExNEGdHMI-2BNg1wdcNgwLuphthFdob-2FDcvfjhp7ESHJ-2F5-2FfwM5TGcoWVRYxO99ks1VAqMSKbxbf3hpJbOQi0O5W37jWEXIcbKmCFLEXd2iKssTDo3X5KGY09dT-2FDpxWGh7XXNsRFO1uktDmADaAW-2FYII0QJC3Ev8ct5Ltb7KQ5EhMrLJGI9yay19I4eQ3pXhpyi7yL-2BBpzdDCrioBusnohircnPwC9w4yw-3D-3D

apparition47 avatar May 12 '21 03:05 apparition47

Postmark URL redirect:

https://click.pstmrk.it/2s/mcgill-orientation-week-2021.eventus.io%2Fevent%2Fscience-frosh-online/43cDuiQN/LQlV/VKX8Hxeob8

Middle path, so redirects to https://mcgill-orientation-week-2021.eventus.io/event/science-frosh-online

austinhuang0131 avatar Aug 26 '21 14:08 austinhuang0131

safelinks.protection.outlook.com isn't for tracking, it is malware protection. And I think you can disable it in your Outlook.com settings.

m-schmitt avatar Sep 25 '21 19:09 m-schmitt

@m-schmitt i don't think you can disable this on Office 365 (exchange) inboxes by yourself (not by company admin) (but i don't use it anymore so idrc at this point so correct me if i'm wrong)

also it still can track

austinhuang0131 avatar Sep 25 '21 19:09 austinhuang0131

Reddit:

https://click.redditmail.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F/1/0100017c1a15a5b9-b8bb47fa-fa9d-4e80-aa6d-2f61353ce624-000000/Ye5qiCp0_4SpV1DQXcDKNMvFsvpmtWmqvvqYacdIeK8=216

Middle path, so https://www.reddit.com/

austinhuang0131 avatar Sep 25 '21 19:09 austinhuang0131