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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by joshuakarjala on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @02:56PM (#13699238)
Keep in mind - the CEO in question could be writing personal e-mails out from an ATS / Sourcing tool that helps keep track of communications.

Tracking links are not always == shotgun approach

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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by HarryHirsch on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:33PM (#13700243)
Tracking links are always extremely bad form, though. I'd be interested in hearing from the other side, though, why such behaviour would be considered acceptable.
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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by Trundle on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:07PM (#13701954)
I think of acceptable behaviour in terms of a blacklist rather than a whitelist. I don't have a problem with tracking links because I don't see a reason to have a problem with tracking links.
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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by stagbeetle on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:48PM (#13700371)
By tracking links do you mean custom-generated links to a certain page that reply back to some software showing that you clicked the link?
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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by city41 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:27PM (#13700691)
Yes, exactly. Usually they are in the form of http://sometrackingwebsite.com/someid?nextUrl=https://youtub....
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