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twovests wrote (edited )

Man :(

I'm in the US, so things might differ worldwide, but $5/month seems egregious for this. Some games give you in-game bucks when you watch ads. Microsoft Rewards is generous for the same deal (or, at least it was in ~2012, I bought an Assassins Creed game for $5 with my sick ad loot.)

Places like r/beermoney have good resources for this kind of "surveillance capitalism labor" and places like r/churning have good resources for the kind of "credit card rewards" or "$200 to open a checking account with us". In a few US and Canadian states, you can even get paid something like $0.05 per can or bottle you return. And Fiverr, MTurk, etc.

Hell, I've made about ~$2000 so far just from class action and related suits. This person (if in the US) would make a lot more money by just opting our of arbitration when possible.

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neku OP wrote

he's just a kid (like 22 or something) so i'm sure when he gets an actual job and a girlfriend he'll realise that tapping on ads for pennies is a waste of his time. its just sort of bleak, but also funny

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