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Sandy, I am a current member of Prolific. They never asked me for ID, but I joined before they started requiring that of their new members. Regarding asking to allow third parties, I always get popup before logging on Prolific asking if I will allow that. I can choose yes or no. As Cricket stated, Prolific is quite different from other survey sites. For one thing, you do not get screened out. There are a list of surveys. Many are studies done by academic institutions, some prestigious ones. And their studies pay much better. They pay in British Pounds, which is equivalent to about $1.26 in US Dollars. Today, I did one study where I received 10 British Pounds, about $12 US for one study. The study was interesting and fun. Prolific and Paid Viewpoint are the only two places I do surveys now. Between them, I make anywhere from $120-$180/month, pretty good money for surveys. Prolific is legit.

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I only do them now and then and I do the little paying ones, but they add up quickly. They have quite a few attention questions and if you blow those they don't pay you. I am always being asked to update my profile, which isn't that bad because I did change my mind about a certain area of my life. But I get some rather quick surveys done with them and they pay via Paypal. I just don't want to earn too much with them.

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It was better when they offered PayPal Dawn, now you have to get the MasterCard, they have them awful prizes on there that are lots of money, who ever orders them I wonder

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Prolific recently changed and became more like the old unfavorites. Probably part of the ID requirement. You are being tracked and the new nonacademic private clients want to know who you are. This can be discern from the URLs. The non-academic surveys, an significant amount, are now completely anonymous. Even some academic surveys from the university of texas went rogue. Meaning that there wasn't any consent to be a subject or statement of privacy protection. These changes started to show up in march. I was irked. So, i started digging. I discovered in the UK business registration that mid February, on the 17th, all the registered managers resigned and rehired in the same day. I suspect a charter change. Then the prolific experience declined. I started get tasks that were not studies or surveys like how would i design a under graduate entrepreneur program, providing at least 100 words description to defend my suggestion in correct english, no misspellings and grammatically correct, or my work would be rejected and i wouldn't get $1.57 reward. Some one was too lazy to write their own dissertation. The worst where the Chinese asking what new electronic product would you like to buy. This is a focus group question, usually hundreds of dollars, the Chinese were paying $2.13. I bailed. prolific only pays through Paypal. Starting $2022, paypal will be sending 1099 for everyone over $600. This is easy to reach with surveys paying through a single financial service provider. prolific support is the pits, i started many tickets, study died, not described accurately, under pays, very inaccurate time estimates, asking individuals to recall on detail traumatic work experiences at length. I never got an adjustment. I also found support’s conduct terrible, the agents didn't know their own system, made stuff up and were very casual in their conduct, like they were on a barstool next to you. Best not to plan for help. If you try to do it on your own, because the researchers ignored email requests and try to resolve by contacting the institution, prolific management will come down on you. I moved on. The payouts were better, but the crap treatment was getting worse.

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I did end up getting the 2000 points. I was just so bewildered by their reasoning for attempting to not give me the reward.

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I do remember giving them something but it was a few years ago, not sure what it was. The company is British based...I am in the U.S. so wasn't worried. The surveys we get are from PhD students all over the world. I look at it this way, it pays my monthly electric bill and more. I average $20 a day, now that may make my friends laugh who are making loads of money per hour but to me, that's $600 a month which I need! I'm retired so have the time to do this but if you keep checking their site, you can pretty much find many surveys per day. It depends on your financial situation, Sandy. If I didn't have Prolific, I would be unhappy because it's my biggest source of income. Not everyone is as broke as me, lol. I know it's a pain to have to be looking over our shoulders for identity theft but I have never had a problem. Plus, Prolific is really interesting. So different than "which cake box do you like better?" stuff from other companies. We have a chance to write to the creator of the survey, everyone is always polite and they give bonuses on certain surveys. Maybe reconsider. Honestly, I have been doing surveys for 12 years and this company is in another class, very professional. Your decision, your comfort level...good luck whatever you decide!

@melbourne_yankee Thanks for the very comprehensive summary on Freecash. I was considering joining, as I like to play games on the computer. It almost sounds like the algorhithm might be a 'bot or multiple 'bots. They would represent "the house", which always wins on these kinds of games. It sounds suspect, and as you stated, they get people on there playing these games thinking they will have a better chance if they spend actual money, and then "the house" winds up getting the money in the end. I won't be joining Freecash.

Well as I said, I have to collect a couple of more free "rewards" to make the minimum cash out level and I'm gone. Here is what I've done with six games on that site and the results: 1. First one was a Texas Hold'em poker game from Ayet Studios. Got "lucky" (yeah I've been playing free online poker for a while now for fun so I think I know a little about how those games work.), made the level in the required time frame and didn't buy anything. Got paid out. Great result. 2. Tried a slot game from the same place and didn't do well so gave up as soon as I knew I wasn't going to make it. No way I was going to spend anything.. 3. A bingo game from Adgem that I posted about. Was really lucky and did the game quite fast, but got ripped off getting only about 1/4 the stated award and then then the bs with the emails and screen shots. Freecash fobbed me off right away. The game was Bingo Holiday. 4. A different slot game from Ayet Studios and this time I learned from my previous experience and got really lucky. The requirement was hit level 300 in some time period. I was sitting around level 295 and decided to take a chance and hit a hug "win" on a bonus game. Then hit like crazy and went all the way to about Level 320 like magic. After that it was downhill all the way. Topped out at around Level 350 with zero chips left. Got paid out right away and was paid as stated in the award. 5. Then tried a another bingo game from Ayet Studios. Needed to get to Level 50 or 51, and made it to Level 29 and realized that I couldn't make it. The game is called Bingo Blitz and is similar to Bingo Holiday. Terrible luck (set up that way, I assume) and other players were getting bingos with 5 numbers on the board and I hadn't even hit one or two numbers for four cards. Yep, out of there. Wonder if I could have made it and got the level if I spent something, but the way the game was going, no way. 6. And finally, a slot game from an offferwall called Lootability or something like that. Again I was lucky and easily hit the level required and did a few more. Same story as posted. Only got 1/4 the reward that was stated in the offer. The experience was interesting, but I'm done with Freecash and those places. They are set up to suck the money from people playing the games and if you happen to get lucky then you have to wonder if you'll get paid. One always wonders with these games including online poker if they are set up for a predetermined outcome. Lots of places that offer online poker always bs about their so called algo that is bias free.............Well I don't care what they say about it the results are impossible in the real world of Texas Hold'em. Manipulation of the data output (cards) based on players actions during the game is a real possibility. Have been beat too many times on the river card by the other player getting the one and only card that could beat me such as a card filing and inside straight or some hitting four of a kind when I had a full house, etc, etc. Then there are the donks that go all in pre-flop with something like J 2 against my pair of Aces and end up hitting a full house. To win at online poker you have to beat the algo, the donks, and then finally, as in the real world, the other players.

Don't bother with Pinecone anymore. They were once one of the best survey sites and now they are one of the worst.

They use to be really good especially with giving you products to test But that has changed when I do get a survey fro them which is rare I very seldom qualify

What Bal said. I'm on there, and it took a lot of time for me to get on there. You have to just keep trying and get rejected multiple times. They claim they have banners on certain websites, which they will not tell you what those websites are, to try and sign up. After several rejections, they finally deigned to let me on there. The surveys are few and far between. They do pay $3 each, and you can cash out with $3, but they do not have PayPal. And after a few years, based on anecdotes I've heard from others on here, they kick you out without any notice. They constantly refresh their survey takers, and my opinion is that they want young people (Gen Z) who spend a lot of money on consumer goods.

There are plenty of companies that send products to their customers to be tested for free. I wouldn't bother with anything like this.