I say it’s glitched too. I deleted the email and link. Wife may have received too……but she will delete it.

They're clearly looking for a younger age group to survey.

It's a Miracle ... All of a sudden, I'm 25 again❗

Let's see what happens

Dean

maGIC

dougjp said

Sure thing and it's a big one.....in these days, how can a bank send an unsolicited e-mail and expect anyone to actually click on a link in that e-mail? Instead they should encourage customers to sign in to their account, and tell them where to find the contest entry there. Tangerine did the same thing recently too! Potential danger.  

Yup ⬆️ ... point well taken❗

Unfortunately, links in an email to a survey is a very common practice ... almost an industry standard.

Dean

Most surveys are slanted to the issuer and there may be no point.
Some surveys and legit and lead to improvements.
Some companies have an agenda of revisions and an upcoming survey is only a big smoke screen and asking for input and then make "their" changes and tell us all it was due to customer survey input.

Dougjp to answer. Excellent point. Many FI's and Credit Cards still send emails with a link in it. I never use them.....I use from MY Bookmarks as I feel that is a safer thing to do.

So why bother doing it?

Dean said
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I just got an email from Oaken, advising that Oaken's customers are being asked by their parent company (Fairstone Bank) to take a short survey (with link provided), about Oaken's products & services.

Any thoughts on the Peeves we should mention ?
Dean  

Sure thing and it's a big one.....in these days, how can a bank send an unsolicited e-mail and expect anyone to actually click on a link in that e-mail? Instead they should encourage customers to sign in to their account, and tell them where to find the contest entry there. Tangerine did the same thing recently too! Potential danger.

Any thoughts on the Pros & Cons we should mention ?

Dean

ps. some sites will detect the ad-blocker on Firefox and request to disable it. So as not to mess up with my Firefox install, where needed, I switch to a Chrome browser (I didn't use Google Chrome, it is SRWare Iron Browser, an open sourced Chrome like browser, without Google Chrome tracking mechanism, etc)

AltaRed said
FWIW, on my laptop, I use Firefox as my primary browser and I use uBlockOrigin as my ad blocker. I use Chrome as my secondary browser and use Adblock Plus as my ad blocker.

I have zero ads and popups.  

Exactly the same here, except my secondary browser is Opera with AdGuard Adblocker. I also never see ads. I do have Chrome and Edge on my computers, but never use them.

Alexandra said

. . .

What is your ad blocker called?  

It's part of the features/settings on Chrome.

Dean

Alexandra said
Don't know if anyone else has noticed but a couple of days ago after Oaken decreased their GIC rates, they started advertising "Newly increased rates".

The ads are popping up everywhere when I am on-line.  

Yes, I have definitely noticed, a lot!! Just popped up again...

I have zero ads and popups.

Dean said
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Alexandra,

FWIW . . .

- My desktop is just operating on the standard 'Widows 11 Home'.
- I'm using Google Chrome's ad-blocker.

Dean  

For instance, right now on this site I have Chev truck ads, home depot, single senior cruises (ha, ha) and Scotia Bank. After awhile you get so used to them they are hardly noticeable.

What is your ad blocker called?

FWIW . . .

- My desktop is just operating on the standard 'Widows 11 Home'.
- I'm using Google Chrome's ad-blocker.

Dean

Dean said
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I don't see any such ads when I'm on their site (https://www.oaken.com/), but I have an ad-blocker on.

I take it, this is new for Oaken. Are those ads false, or misleading?
Dean  

I can't seem to get rid of pop up ads since I switched to Windows 11 about a year ago.
Didn't get them at all with Windows 10.

I had Windows 10 Pro and when I went to purchase a new computer a year ago, they "advertised" the one I wanted came with windows 11 pro. Went into town and of course that model wasn't available. I let him talk me into getting another model but it didn't include the pro. Unsure if it would have made any difference.

The Oaken ads pop up on many sites, even this one. They just say "Our GIC rates have increased" or The Best GIC rates available. You click on it and Oaken gives you their true rates as they stand. They especially advertise their 2 year rate @3.65%. Don't mind that so much as when just after they decreased all their rates they advertise Our GIC rates have increased.