Google Rewards
2Hmmm, I already added this topic, but is not coming up in da list.
I have received ~10 surveys today, after being on a lull compared to usual traffic.
THey seem random and unrelated to me, instead of the usual 'have you been to Home Depot lately".
Anybody else experiencing the same?
TL;DR Are you creeped out by Google watching you?
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Yep, I made about $5 Google dollars the past 24 hrs or so with all those surveys.
@andalite4412 finally, someone who is taking me seriously, thank you for confirming my insanity
not like @drunkcat @thekenya @ignorant @mmlivezey @lajivzy
@DMlivezey np fam
I think you’ve been listening to too much Pink Floyd, it’s right here.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/google-rewards
i’ve been getting more surveys than usual.
I’ve gotten a lot of weird surveys as well. Asking me if I visited places that I’ve never heard of.
Why would you be creeped out? You have to opt in.
@DrunkCat ummm, because they know where i am even if i don’t buy anything, and now they want to know if i like fluffy slippers
@DMlivezey Yeah, they explicitly mention they use your location history. It’s great because my bus stop is next to a grocer that is desperate for validation so I’ve been making bank.
@DrunkCat have you ever figured out what device(s) they have hanging around to know your whereabouts?
@DMlivezey … The GPS on your phone?
Which post do I comment on?
yeah, i’ve made a good bit compared to previous days.
@outz you’ve gotta start spending that dinero, it expires - i’d recommend a movie, but i forgot
@DMlivezey oh its spent. i bought google music prepaid cards back when they were like 50% off. the rewards app just keeps track of total earned which for me is 1.5yrs
@outz wow, 1/2 off, where?
Just a few surveys a week here. I’ll usually get 10-30 cents from them asking if I went to a store or watched some sport.
They apparently don’t like me. I’ve gotten like 10 surveys total from them.
I replied seriously in your other thread. Why two threads?
@jbartus cuz i couldn’t find the first one, refresh, refresh, did i click say it? should i get another beer, awe fuggit, i’ll just post again since it might save humanity
11 yesterday 5 today. About 4.50.
You think that is creepy check this out. https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/
@caffeine_dude Whoa… You and I have been to all the same places!
(just kidding, I get how it works, was just being silly…)
@caffeine_dude I think that locationhistory link is defective somehow. It seems to be mixing my history with Mrs. cengland0. She travels and I do not but it has all sorts of locations where she has been and I have not.
@cengland0 Do you share an google account with her? Maybe she signed in as you to share purchased apps or movies.
@caffeine_dude Previously she used one of my old phones but I just gave her a new one that was factory reset before she used it. Now she’s in Vegas and I can see her new vacation trip in my own personal location history. All the previous locations I can attribute to us sharing the same ID but not the latest ones.
So shortly after posting here and discussing the glut of rewards I was getting, they dried up. I got none on 5/23, two on 5/24, none until 6/1, and none since.
@jbartus Same here. It was probably some error on Google’s side, and our posting about it on their internet alerted them to the mistake so they corrected it.
@hallmike Yep. Google tracks everything done, said, and written. Even working on the ‘thought’ part. Of course it is all done to better serve us.
Yeah it’s creepy I’ve been doing rewards for two years, to pay for some iap’s. Gf has done it since Oct '15 I have total 16$ and change and since she started she’s gotten 68$ or more. She regularly gets 4 or more a day. I get 1 every couple weeks. I have a gs5 she has gs7e. We used to have the same phones but the only other difference is I refuse to leave my GPS on. So it makes a huge difference but I prefer my battery life.
I just started a couple of months ago and I am already at $21. Not sure why but it will pay for the new Monkees Album at least.
@readnj yeah it went real fast for me up to ~$20 but now it’s dead. IDK what’s going on
@readnj there’s a new monkees album?
@DMlivezey Actually yes and it is getting good reviews
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/monkees-good-times
@readnj thx - i just downloaded it on my phone from Google Music, i’ll give it a listen
@readnj i listened to it most of the day while working on the house project, on repeat - really liked the single
thx for the tip!
@DMlivezey It’s pop but actually good pop! I like You Bring The Summer.
@readnj I saw that it was written by Weezer’s lead
Only 7 surveys this year for me so far
Good thing I don’t really play games (those that I do want, I usually get from Amazon (if possible) using my coins. Sometimes I then send an email asking dev if I could have a promo code to get the Play Store version), or use the multimedia section of the Play Store.
@FroodyFrog Amazon coins? o_o
@jbartus
Yeah, I have earned thousands over time.
@FroodyFrog I was hoping for elaboration as to what they are
@jbartus
Ah. In a nutshell, they’re virtual currency which can be used to buy apps/ IAPs.
From time to time, Amazon has offered them for downloading/buying certain apps. For instance: buy a $2 app, get 500 coins. So I’ve used coins to get more coins.
@FroodyFrog ah that’s why I don’t know about them, I detest the money grab that is the Amazon app store.
@jbartus
I detest it also.
@FroodyFrog but you shop there… xD
@jbartus
Your point?
@FroodyFrog why not shop on the Play store? Almost every app on the amazon store is ported from there anyhow.
@jbartus
I try some of them out first through the Amazon App Store, then if I like it, I’ll either buy it from Play Store, or wait until it goes on sale.
All this is slightly easier for me than buying it from Play Store, then getting a refund for the app (even with 2 day refund period).
@FroodyFrog gotcha, thanks for the clarification.
My surveys had slowed a lot too and I have received 3 so far today.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I have maybe gotten one or two total. Maybe I just live in an area they don’t care about.
@PurplePawprints Or rather the shops that you frequent don’t care.
@PurplePawprints I downloaded the app a couple weeks ago, and have gotten maybe a dozen surveys. My boyfriend downloaded it two days after me, and he has only gotten 2 surveys since then. He even goes more places than me. Seems like it just doesn’t like some people as much.
@metaphore I downloaded the app, but it never loads, just a constant spinning circle. The few surveys I’ve gotten have come through from Now or Maps. Maybe that’s the problem and the questions I’ve gotten are different from the Rewards surveys. I don’t know.
@PurplePawprints The quickest way to tell is just start the Rewards app. If that isn’t working then the surveys you gotten aren’t from Rewards.
@DrunkCat Yeah, I just submitted a help request. To be honest, I had forgotten all about it until I saw this thread come up again. Then I tried opening the app and noticed the issues. Explains why I’m not getting anything…
@PurplePawprints Best of luck! Here’s hoping they give you some sympathy cents.