– Why are there so many ‘Question’ Scams for giftcards etc, How do these people make money? Same with quesstionare for money sites.
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They’re getting your pageviews, clicks, and just generally interaction. If you aren’t blocking ads, and they’ve got a 100 question quiz, with each question on a new page, they can get hundreds of ad views out of you clicking through the quiz.
Basically they make money the same way Google does… they just attract you with a *fake* service instead of actually providing something useful like Google.
I even used one of those types of things that *did* actually pay out a long time ago. It was a knockoff search engine that ‘paid’ you a couple points to use it, along with doing quizzes and the like, and after earning several thousand points over several months, I successfully “cashed out” a $5 or $10 gift card.
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