A Visit to AppSee.com = Unsolicited Personal Email

4 points·newbie1010··8 comments

Yesterday I visited AppSee.com

Today I got a personalized email from their account manager :

"Hi [FirstName],

Thank you for your recent interest in Appsee.

Unfortunately, I was unable to contact you earlier to discuss the nature of your inquiry.

Appsee is a powerful visual in-app analytics platform that.... "

What blackmagic are they using?

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Hey newbie1010, John here, Appsee's CMO :) We don't send that email to people who don't request us to reach out to them. Could you provide me with your email so I could check our system to find out why you got that message? Have a great day! John

leadforensics.com

what script on the source code on the website identify this solution?

I'm assuming they are using Lead Forensics - I've heard of this solution before. There are a few other competing technologies, but LF is probably the most well known.

I think they do IP identification from a large number of network sites.

You fill out a form w/ company X and they're sharing data with LeadForensics, now when you visit company Y, if LeadForensics got your IP from company X, they know you visited.

Spy vs spy

https://builtwith.com/appsee.com - Confirmed - they are using leadforensics.

And again my question. I can't see any js on the source code of the web page..

did you fill up any form? or they just get your name/email out of nowhere? are you logged in on LinkedIn all the time?

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