CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@mcc@mastodon.social Google seems hell bent on destroying everything that people switched to them for.

@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse @babe@glitterkitten.co.uk The problem comes when it encourages people to click links to random websites without a clear connection to the entity the email claims to be running the survey.

When a financial reward is a plausible outcome of clicking a link in an email, it's going to be a lot easier to convince people to click on a phishing link.

That said, paid surveys are nice but no matter how plausible a given email seems, don't click anything. Reach out to their customer service to verify if you really want to, just don't click the link without checking(and don't trust the CS contacts in the email, go to their website)

@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk Those really aggravate me.

It's one thing if someone on social media announces a survey via their normal social media channels, but emails coming out of nowhere? Yeah, that's bad.

And some of them being legitimate(to the extent this sort of thing can be legitimate)... yeah, worse. Just makes this sort of thing look plausible.

If I can't get to it via a normal login to the company/service website, it might as well not exist for me.