Whenever something like CPAlead or Sharecash asks me to do a survey, I always look around for a way to bypass it. Why do that, when it could be more trouble than just doing the survey? Because often the surveys are near-impossible to complete.
I have an account on this one website that pays me for doing surveys (I won't say which so I won't be accused of spamming, but I'll post if someone asks). While a lot of them I don't qualify for, the ones I do are simple enough. They just ask me a bunch of questions, like one would expect from a survey, and then eventually they send me a check.
The surveys on Sharecash and their ilk, however, aren't anything like that. They're not really surveys at all. First of all, most of them require you to download a program to your computer, or give your cell phone number and (I think) reply to a text, with the fine print saying they'll charge you.
I recently tried one of them that didn't. It had three steps: "Complete the form below with Accurate [sic] information", "Answer All [sic] survey questions", and finally "Choose your reward". First, it asked me for my basic personal information: name, address, phone number, et cetera. I filled it all in with fake information, using a disposable email address from Mailinator. (It didn't accept the disposable email address at first, but then I disabled the 100%-client-side validation code.)
Then it took me to step 2, but there weren't any actual survey questions. All it was was dozens of "offers" which I could (and did) skip. The deeper I got, the more the link to skip was hidden, eventually becoming a tiny, light-colored "no thanks" link in the corner of the page. Many of these offers asked me to download something.
Eventually it took me to step 3, but first it made me choose an offer to complete, and there wasn't any kind of "no thanks" link or anything. I chose one that looked innocent enough:
When I got there, it gave me a form that looked very familiar. It looked exactly like the one on the original site I was on, and it even had the same clientside email check code. It then took me through the pages for the same exact offers in the same order, and then I got to that same page seen in the screenshot.
So what do they expect you to do? Just keep looking at ads until you give up on downloading the file or accessing whatever it is you want? Is it even possible to download files from Sharecash? It seems all the free offers they provide are just more of the same crap that continues until you pick a paid offer.
But the worst part? There's no other options. You can't even pay them to let you download the file. If there's no working surveys, tough. You still can't download the file.
So why can't they just give the normal kind of surveys like I've gotten paid for? I've never understood that.
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Because 100% the file is fake and only used to make poor fools do the surveys, download the adware/malware that is offered to get to next page or in most cases farm for all sorts personal information.
In the end you never get the file and even if you did the file is merely fake most of the time.
The sites themselves are not technically scams, but they are rarely used for legitimate purposes. I've discovered some interesting things on blackhat forms, and I was surprised to hear (from multiple sources) that one of the main uses of these PPD sites is to distribute internet pr0n. Some sources claim that CP is frequently distributed through those sites, but I am unsure of how valid those particular claims are (and I don't really want to learn the answer to that).
As a whole, the vast majority of non-pr0n content uploaded to these PPD sites is blackhat material (mostly useless guides on spamming, blackhat SEO, money-making scams, etc). I've heard that a frequently-abused technique is to upload illegal torrents to file-sharing sites, but to place the torrent's contents inside a password-protected archive, then to include a link to a PPD site, which has a text file with the file's password in it. As you might have already realized, very little legitimate content is uploaded to these PPD sites. I'd advise staying far away from them. They aren't worth your time.
Edit: Yes, it's possible to download files from PPD sites that are protected by surveys, but it's difficult and should not be attempted outside of a sandbox environment.
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"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
But here's what I don't get. Rather than these "surveys" they have now (is there a name for this kind of thing?) why don't they just use the same kind that I get paid for doing? And why don't they have an option to just pay them directly for the download in case none of the surveys are working? (Or you're filthy rich and don't have the time. )
Whether the files are real or not, are these things even possible to complete? If you want to give it a try and prove me wrong go to mywebrewardsurvey.com (not a link so as not to increase their search ranks.)
Whether the files are real or not, are these things even possible to complete? If you want to give it a try and prove me wrong go to -Link Removed- (not a link so as not to increase their search ranks.)
John has already stated it's possible to get the files, but you should never try to do this outside a sandbox environment. As well the files are normally fake or not what you wanted. Most files are just illegal content of various types, but I really do not think I need to go into detail on such.
Please do not link to such sites like this for they are generally malicious as a whole in one way or another. As well they given these types of Pay Per Download sites, they make it complex to ensure they get their money worth. If they gave easy to bypass surveys they would get paid less and would not survive. Again normally the only thing these sites have is illegal content or fake content in which flies are attracted to which spend much time trying to get to the rotten fruit they desire. While that is happening the trap itself is making a huge profit from it, but finally the fly gets to the rotten fruit only to find its nothing they want as it only smelled good but tastes awful.
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But here's what I don't get. Rather than these "surveys" they have now (is there a name for this kind of thing?) why don't they just use the same kind that I get paid for doing? And why don't they have an option to just pay them directly for the download in case none of the surveys are working? (Or you're filthy rich and don't have the time. )
Whether the files are real or not, are these things even possible to complete? If you want to give it a try and prove me wrong go to mywebrewardsurvey.com (not a link so as not to increase their search ranks.)
Some of these PPD sites have options to purchase so-called "premium" memberships for a fee, which usually removes the surveys.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” — Albert Einstein
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
The bypasses and stuff you are downloading are always linked to a survey site or a rar archive that requires a password and to get the password you need to do a survey. I did once get a legit css hack that was linked to fileice that i somehow successfully completed and I also successfully download a bypasser that apparently needed an update and i needed to do another survey to get it
....... A CSS hack would not do anything to bypass a survey, that is not how survey sites work.
....... A CSS hack would not do anything to bypass a survey, that is not how survey sites work.
I think he means Counter-Strike: Source, not Cascading Style Sheet. In which case I imagine he downloaded a hack (as in a cheat) from one of those sites, not used a hack to bypass the survey.
But I have been able to get past them by hacking on a few occasions. On one of them I figured out that it was a clientside script checking the server to see if the survey had been completed, so I just used netcat as a proxy to return a response saying it was completed.
And actually, a CSS (as in cascading style sheet) hack would work on some occasions. Sometimes it's just an overlay asking you to complete the server, and if you use something like Firebug to set its style to "display: none", it will go away.
I have an account on this one website that pays me for doing surveys (I won't say which so I won't be accused of spamming, but I'll post if someone asks). While a lot of them I don't qualify for, the ones I do are simple enough. They just ask me a bunch of questions, like one would expect from a survey, and then eventually they send me a check.
The surveys on Sharecash and their ilk, however, aren't anything like that. They're not really surveys at all. First of all, most of them require you to download a program to your computer, or give your cell phone number and (I think) reply to a text, with the fine print saying they'll charge you.
I recently tried one of them that didn't. It had three steps: "Complete the form below with Accurate [sic] information", "Answer All [sic] survey questions", and finally "Choose your reward". First, it asked me for my basic personal information: name, address, phone number, et cetera. I filled it all in with fake information, using a disposable email address from Mailinator. (It didn't accept the disposable email address at first, but then I disabled the 100%-client-side validation code.)
Then it took me to step 2, but there weren't any actual survey questions. All it was was dozens of "offers" which I could (and did) skip. The deeper I got, the more the link to skip was hidden, eventually becoming a tiny, light-colored "no thanks" link in the corner of the page. Many of these offers asked me to download something.
Eventually it took me to step 3, but first it made me choose an offer to complete, and there wasn't any kind of "no thanks" link or anything. I chose one that looked innocent enough:
When I got there, it gave me a form that looked very familiar. It looked exactly like the one on the original site I was on, and it even had the same clientside email check code. It then took me through the pages for the same exact offers in the same order, and then I got to that same page seen in the screenshot.
So what do they expect you to do? Just keep looking at ads until you give up on downloading the file or accessing whatever it is you want? Is it even possible to download files from Sharecash? It seems all the free offers they provide are just more of the same crap that continues until you pick a paid offer.
But the worst part? There's no other options. You can't even pay them to let you download the file. If there's no working surveys, tough. You still can't download the file.
So why can't they just give the normal kind of surveys like I've gotten paid for? I've never understood that.
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So why do people use them to upload files?
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Because 100% the file is fake and only used to make poor fools do the surveys, download the adware/malware that is offered to get to next page or in most cases farm for all sorts personal information.
In the end you never get the file and even if you did the file is merely fake most of the time.
As a whole, the vast majority of non-pr0n content uploaded to these PPD sites is blackhat material (mostly useless guides on spamming, blackhat SEO, money-making scams, etc). I've heard that a frequently-abused technique is to upload illegal torrents to file-sharing sites, but to place the torrent's contents inside a password-protected archive, then to include a link to a PPD site, which has a text file with the file's password in it. As you might have already realized, very little legitimate content is uploaded to these PPD sites. I'd advise staying far away from them. They aren't worth your time.
Edit: Yes, it's possible to download files from PPD sites that are protected by surveys, but it's difficult and should not be attempted outside of a sandbox environment.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
Whether the files are real or not, are these things even possible to complete? If you want to give it a try and prove me wrong go to mywebrewardsurvey.com (not a link so as not to increase their search ranks.)
█▀▀█ He made it so you couldn't have more than two lines in a signature.
John has already stated it's possible to get the files, but you should never try to do this outside a sandbox environment. As well the files are normally fake or not what you wanted. Most files are just illegal content of various types, but I really do not think I need to go into detail on such.
Please do not link to such sites like this for they are generally malicious as a whole in one way or another. As well they given these types of Pay Per Download sites, they make it complex to ensure they get their money worth. If they gave easy to bypass surveys they would get paid less and would not survive. Again normally the only thing these sites have is illegal content or fake content in which flies are attracted to which spend much time trying to get to the rotten fruit they desire. While that is happening the trap itself is making a huge profit from it, but finally the fly gets to the rotten fruit only to find its nothing they want as it only smelled good but tastes awful.
Might get banned for that. Just saying.
Anyway, most are. You can't get past the surveys.
AFAIK this forum is supposed to be child-friendly?
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It surprises me how many people on this forum can't read benchmarks.
He said pr0nz now he get ban lel
They are all scams.
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Some of these PPD sites have options to purchase so-called "premium" memberships for a fee, which usually removes the surveys.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
I think he means Counter-Strike: Source, not Cascading Style Sheet. In which case I imagine he downloaded a hack (as in a cheat) from one of those sites, not used a hack to bypass the survey.
But I have been able to get past them by hacking on a few occasions. On one of them I figured out that it was a clientside script checking the server to see if the survey had been completed, so I just used netcat as a proxy to return a response saying it was completed.
And actually, a CSS (as in cascading style sheet) hack would work on some occasions. Sometimes it's just an overlay asking you to complete the server, and if you use something like Firebug to set its style to "display: none", it will go away.
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