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Bronze Contributor

Oct 17, 2017

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is ruining Outlook.com

About a week ago, I noticed that all URLs were suddenly extremely long/obscure, and beginning with something like: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url= It destroys the URL visibil...

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David Slight

Iron Contributor

Jan 07, 2025

It is now 2024 but searching does not find any more reasonable discussion on this topic.

Our email is still full of undecipherable URLs when the technology should be helping me, through clarity and transparency, to decide if I should click on the link or not.

Should I click on this or not?

<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcomcastdotcom-mid-prod1-all-t.adobe-campaign.com%2Fr%2F%3Fid%3Dh09b7b698-388c-49e5-b86a-7396bf1a74df%2C2621b9%2C235b4&data=05%7C02%7C%7C70b9799eb23a4d4bfc7b08dd2dcd3c5f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638717081685827113%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8ywjv5KN%2BwjdvJuv4fWkd7MOHBS2UYov3SVr3uVoUx4%3D&reserved=0>