Do you ever click links in email? No.
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So I'm sure everyone else out there is getting tons of email about GDPR updates. Numerous companies telling you that their security policies have been updated. The very odd (spelled s-t-u-p-i-d) thing is that these big companies add links in the email so I can check. I do not click links in email. Check out this one from StackOverflow that contains buttons for me to click: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WYmIM.png^ General Safety Principle I thought the general safety principle was : 1. Never click a link in an email. 2. Always go to the site by navigating in your browser and responding that way. These companies send the email and want me to click a link but I won't. The 2nd Stupid Part So I go to the site and the company makes it extremely difficult to find a place to respond since I haven't clicked their link. :mad: It's really annoying. And stupid. :rolleyes:
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So I'm sure everyone else out there is getting tons of email about GDPR updates. Numerous companies telling you that their security policies have been updated. The very odd (spelled s-t-u-p-i-d) thing is that these big companies add links in the email so I can check. I do not click links in email. Check out this one from StackOverflow that contains buttons for me to click: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WYmIM.png^ General Safety Principle I thought the general safety principle was : 1. Never click a link in an email. 2. Always go to the site by navigating in your browser and responding that way. These companies send the email and want me to click a link but I won't. The 2nd Stupid Part So I go to the site and the company makes it extremely difficult to find a place to respond since I haven't clicked their link. :mad: It's really annoying. And stupid. :rolleyes:
raddevus wrote:
So I go to the site and the company makes it extremely difficult to find a place to respond since I haven't clicked their link
That's becoming a general trend, comapanies hiding their email address. They want you to call the help line, and get stuck in a queue for a long time (with the usual shit muzac and "your call is important"), only to talk to somebody in a completely different country with no authority to accept your feedback anyway.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I have only negative money. You're welcome to it.
Oh, Nega-Coin a Bitcoin derivative, you say? Where do I invest? Here, please take all my money. Do you have a link that runs a negacoin miner in my browser without me knowing? Please providz da linkz fast. :laugh: I know dis will be whut make me riches.
When Lambo?
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So I'm sure everyone else out there is getting tons of email about GDPR updates. Numerous companies telling you that their security policies have been updated. The very odd (spelled s-t-u-p-i-d) thing is that these big companies add links in the email so I can check. I do not click links in email. Check out this one from StackOverflow that contains buttons for me to click: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WYmIM.png^ General Safety Principle I thought the general safety principle was : 1. Never click a link in an email. 2. Always go to the site by navigating in your browser and responding that way. These companies send the email and want me to click a link but I won't. The 2nd Stupid Part So I go to the site and the company makes it extremely difficult to find a place to respond since I haven't clicked their link. :mad: It's really annoying. And stupid. :rolleyes:
I don't really understand your general safety principle. Do you use an e-mail program that doesn't show where a link goes on hover? If you can see that the link points to the expected domain, in this case stackoverflow.com, is there any reason to trust it less than if you find the link on their page after having manually typed stackoverflow.com in your browser? Or do you not click on links in general?
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So I'm sure everyone else out there is getting tons of email about GDPR updates. Numerous companies telling you that their security policies have been updated. The very odd (spelled s-t-u-p-i-d) thing is that these big companies add links in the email so I can check. I do not click links in email. Check out this one from StackOverflow that contains buttons for me to click: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WYmIM.png^ General Safety Principle I thought the general safety principle was : 1. Never click a link in an email. 2. Always go to the site by navigating in your browser and responding that way. These companies send the email and want me to click a link but I won't. The 2nd Stupid Part So I go to the site and the company makes it extremely difficult to find a place to respond since I haven't clicked their link. :mad: It's really annoying. And stupid. :rolleyes:
As the previous person said, links are fine as long as you can tell where it is going. Surely you click on password reset links, right?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I don't really understand your general safety principle. Do you use an e-mail program that doesn't show where a link goes on hover? If you can see that the link points to the expected domain, in this case stackoverflow.com, is there any reason to trust it less than if you find the link on their page after having manually typed stackoverflow.com in your browser? Or do you not click on links in general?
Thaddeus Jones wrote:
Do you use an e-mail program that doesn't show where a link goes on hover?
https://stackoverflow.com/update-your-account?q=...:b@2899908388?q=phishing
Doesn't seem to work any more, but Chrome only dropped support last year: Mike West on Twitter: "Chrome 59 aims to block embedded credentials for subresource requests (e.g. `user:pass@example.com`). If that sticks, top-level is next."[^] I'm sure there are plenty of other techniques to disguise a malicious URL which might fool even tech-savvy users. The "decimal IP address" trick is quite devious:
http://2899908388/?q=url+decimal+ip+address
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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As the previous person said, links are fine as long as you can tell where it is going. Surely you click on password reset links, right?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
Yeah it’s a good point that if you see the link then you should know where it goes. It’s just more about the fact that all these GDPR email are coming suddenly. Of course an email reset email you have recently requested and are expecting it. These other ones come randomly and expect you to click a link.
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I don't really understand your general safety principle. Do you use an e-mail program that doesn't show where a link goes on hover? If you can see that the link points to the expected domain, in this case stackoverflow.com, is there any reason to trust it less than if you find the link on their page after having manually typed stackoverflow.com in your browser? Or do you not click on links in general?
Yeah it’s a good point that if you see the link then you should know where it goes. It’s just more about the fact that all these GDPR email are coming suddenly and unexpectedly. If I request an email like signing up for it from CP then I figure the links are ok. Also, I often get email from sites that want me to take a survey -- my bank has done this -- and then the link is from a completely different site (the survey site I guess). So since I do not know I have trained myself to simply not click any email links. I usually go to the site and try to search for the thing they wanted me to check out, but they often make that impossible to do.
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So I'm sure everyone else out there is getting tons of email about GDPR updates. Numerous companies telling you that their security policies have been updated. The very odd (spelled s-t-u-p-i-d) thing is that these big companies add links in the email so I can check. I do not click links in email. Check out this one from StackOverflow that contains buttons for me to click: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WYmIM.png^ General Safety Principle I thought the general safety principle was : 1. Never click a link in an email. 2. Always go to the site by navigating in your browser and responding that way. These companies send the email and want me to click a link but I won't. The 2nd Stupid Part So I go to the site and the company makes it extremely difficult to find a place to respond since I haven't clicked their link. :mad: It's really annoying. And stupid. :rolleyes:
The best part of all these GDPR updates is that they mostly have unsubscribe links!
"Qulatiy is Job #1"
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As the previous person said, links are fine as long as you can tell where it is going. Surely you click on password reset links, right?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
011111100010 wrote:
Surely you click on password reset links, right?
Very rarely these days. Usually, the email has a code to type into a web page you've already seen. Or better, the code is sent via SMS to my phone.
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I don't really understand your general safety principle. Do you use an e-mail program that doesn't show where a link goes on hover? If you can see that the link points to the expected domain, in this case stackoverflow.com, is there any reason to trust it less than if you find the link on their page after having manually typed stackoverflow.com in your browser? Or do you not click on links in general?
Yup. Every modern browser shows the link destination on status bar. And we can always right click and copy link to have a better look if it's leads to a trustworthy website.
