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Anyone else have that Google Opinion Rewards app?

Started by Jerzy Bondov, November 07, 2019, 11:46:39 AM

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Jerzy Bondov

You do little surveys and it gives you credit on the Google shop. I spend it on films. The most common question it asks goes like this:

Have you visited any of the following recently?

□ Industrial Farming Supplies Warehouse
□ Bernard Matthews' Killing Floor
□ The Stygian Crypt of Torment
□ Tesco
□ Bathyspheres Direct
□ WOLF
□ Sarasaland

NJ Uncut

Yeah, it's a bit bleak. Let us know exactly where you've been for 6p!

Sebastian Cobb


BlodwynPig

2029, this will be the premium source of income for 80% of the population

Cuellar

Quote from: NJ Uncut on November 07, 2019, 11:58:35 AM
Yeah, it's a bit bleak. Let us know exactly where you've been for 6p!

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on November 07, 2019, 12:13:08 PM
Fuck telling Google even more about me.

Can't you just lie?

NJ Uncut

Quote from: Cuellar on November 07, 2019, 12:14:30 PM
Can't you just lie?

They blocked my account once for lying too much. Basically tracks you (google maps does anyway) and it gives you questions like WHERE YOU AT ICELAND YESTERDAY? and I think it cross references it

I lie in minor ways. I don't like them asking demographic stuff. Knowing I've been the pub is so fuckin what stuff though

Cuellar

Oh right. That's grim.

Like when a detective asks a suspect an easy question and then is all like 'yeah, I already know where you were yesterday at 3pm, I just want to see what YOU say'

idunnosomename

wow im going to be bill gates in no time with this

Dex Sawash

Had race management duty with the sailing club a few weeks ago. The next day google popped up a notification on my phone asking me to identify yesterday's random 4 hour track back and forth across the lake so my "timeline" would be accurate. <throws phone in lake>


Hobo

Just checked and since starting I've had £63. Mostly for confirming I've used my debit card rather than credit or cash. Spent mostly on replacing old albums.

Sebastian Cobb

Bully for you.

I have massive reservations about helping companies like amazon and Google with this shit. Google are paying black people to submit photos to better train it's facial recognition systems, because they usually rely on contrast they're typically less good with black or really pale people in poor lighting. Sounds fine until you realise both Google and amazon do some pretty shady stuff with law enforcement and 'threat modelling' already. In other words it's not in people's interests to help them.

madhair60


idunnosomename

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on November 07, 2019, 02:15:53 PM
Bully for you.

I have massive reservations about helping companies like amazon and Google with this shit. Google are paying black people to submit photos to better train it's facial recognition systems, because they usually rely on contrast they're typically less good with black or really pale people in poor lighting. Sounds fine until you realise both Google and amazon do some pretty shady stuff with law enforcement and 'threat modelling' already. In other words it's not in people's interests to help them.
51p mate. Cant scoff at that.

Blumf

Quote from: madhair60 on November 07, 2019, 02:51:50 PM
yeah i use it buy pornhub premium

Were you wearing any of the following during your last 'transaction':
☐ Pants
☐ Dressing gown
☑ Look of shame

Jerzy Bondov

I told Google about my life and earned a rental of the film UPGRADE. It's about the perils of the unchecked integration of technology into our lives.

kittens

i have had this app for almost 3 years and have made about a fiver.

i sold my soul to the devil in exchange for 17p. he wanted to know if i had been to matalan in the past 3 months, and i'm weak, so i told him. now i have 17p, but at what cost? he knows now that i have not recently been to matalan. and that is Obviously Bad.






NJ Uncut


kidney

I've been using this for almost a year and have found that once you've amassed about £3 it stops offering you surveys.
That or it's bored of me.

idunnosomename

I didnt get anything today. Feel like total shit just want another 51p

NJ Uncut

I've found it pays more for information that's perhaps "valuable".

A lot of the 6p "rewards" were like, Are you a parent? No.

But if you answer yes, it leads to more questions, like with the location ones it'll ask if you paid by cash or card. That'll pay multiples of 6p!!

So you're rewarded not for telling the truth, but for divulging info. Oh, it sounds so obvious now I've typed it out

The Bumlord

Yeah. Made about £80 confirming my trips to Waitrose. Get me!