update from the discord group courtesy of one of my mutuals;
do not trust that damned survey. change your discord password. utilize 2FA.
I use 2FA on every website I log into, and it didn't ask for any details when I took the survey, but I still don't trust that thing at all. One can never be too safe.
whoops I accidentally double reblogged but:
hi, i did some research on this but this link was not phishing and here's why:
qualtrics is a legit website that companies pay to host data gathering surveys to collect metrics on various things. you can also create free surveys but from what i understand the survey results aren't as in-depth as the paid versions get you.
it looks like the survey originates from a banner on the discord app and you click on it and it takes you to the site and you do the thing there. it was only rolled out to a certain amount of people (for the purposes to maybe only get people they thought would be pro-AI? who knows with Discord) but was then passed around everywhere because Fuck AI. And then Discord realized that things weren't going the way they wanted and pulled the survery.
I did some further research on the URL itself:
From ESET link checker it rates it as safe, I also plugged it into a few others as well like Fortinet and Bitdefender and both of those came back safe too, here's a screenshot of ESET:
info on the link itself from urlvoid:
the actual qualtrics site info from urlvoid as well to compare the age of the domain (usually phishing domains are very very young and/or brand new and not legitimate domains but these are both legitimate domains.)
and, inb4 people say "phishing attempts don't always have to ask you to enter your login credentials to scrape your info"
no keyloggers or malware after I clicked on the link (it's been 8 hours now and my discord account is fine).
hopefully, this will quell some panic about the discord thing, its always good practice to protect your account with MFA when it's offered and to change your password when you suspect something may not be right, it's better to err on the side of caution etc, but in this case, it's alright and there's no need to create any undue panic about a link to a survey. fuck AI and Discord should know better than to try and pull more wool over its userbases' eyes because did they not learn from the NFT thing?
okey dokey bye bye now
It's actually kind of striking how rapidly the ads on ostensibly respectable platforms have changed in the last 12–18 months. I've been getting penis enlargement scams and pyramid schemes that don't even bother to pretend to be otherwise on YouTube – it's like every platform is now running the kinds of ads that even three years ago would have been restricted to porn sites, and I'm not gonna lie, the fact that everyone seems to be getting desperate all at once ain't an encouraging sign!
I just saw full frontal erect penis on a weather app. It's not the sign of the impending tech-bubble implosion I expected, but apparently it's the sign we're getting.
Waiter oh waiter more salt in my wound please!!!
As a Trainer, what are the logistics on converting a Secret Base into a proper residential space?
i wont lie i've been living out of a Secret Base for the last few months, hardest part is getting power and water running without an electric or water type on hand.
so far i've been filling batteries off of wild Pachirisu that end up in my shrub and playing matador with the Duckletts to fill up water basins. however i AM saving money since its around the size of a solid 1b/1ba without having to pay rent ... as long as you're okay with the occasional trainer shaking you out while they're looking for berries or whatever
YEEHAW ITS TRENT
Some fursonas wear clothes, while others don't. This is because some of them have bitten from the fruit of knowledge or descend from a line that have, while the rest haven't.
Arguments for/against from the tags:
This take has the potential to be a white hot scorcher, so please stay with me here and take this critique in the spirit it was intended, which is to draw attention to a subconscious bias I see floating around so that it can be addressed for the sake of making the world a slightly less mononormative place:
coughing baby vs different, more powerful coughing baby
