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Suspicious CoX Survey

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Jun

2006

Dilbert2001

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I was going to do the CoX Survey that came with today's OSRS developer blog:

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/chambers-of-xeric-potential-tweaks--changes?oldschool=1#

However the warning raised a seriouus

red flag

to me:

"This content is created by the owner of the form. The data you submit will be sent to the form owner. Microsoft is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of its customers, including those of this form owner. Never give out your password.Report abuse

Powered by Microsoft Forms | The owner of this form has not provided a privacy statement as to how they will use your response data. Do not provide personal or sensitive information."

Anybody knows who is the "owner of the form". Are they OSRS or some 3rd party site with no privacy statement so they can spy on us and/or sell our sensitive or personal information?

10-Oct-2023 18:52:59

Nov

2011

Applejuiceaj

Forum Moderator Posts: 44,957 Sapphire Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

The owner of the survey form is the Old School RuneScape team. That line on the survey form is a generic warning from Microsoft (whose service is being used to host the survey) not to provide sensitive information over a form, and is likely posted on the bottom of any form published using their service rather than being unique to this one.

There is no personally identifying information collected on that survey, it is all multiple choice answers. If the survey wasn't safe (and wasn't being run by the Old School team) it wouldn't have been the focal point and linked within the devblog.

As such, there is no need to question the legitimacy of the survey any further than this thread has.

11-Oct-2023 04:46:00

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