What is Reddit's opinion of Google Opinion Rewards?

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Google Opinion Rewards. You answer some survey questions every now and then for some cents that you can redeem in the Play Store, Play Movies, Play Books, etc.

Google Rewards is one. I downloaded the survey app a year ago and made $60 last year. It's not much but for a 10 second survey a few times a week it's easy money.

Your success will vary based on your location and where you go. I tend to be a creature of habit and frequent the same places so I don't get them as often. Others who tend to branch out get many more.

You guys should really consider Google Opinion Rewards. You answer customer surveys and get money. It's how I don't actually spend money on games but I still buy the goodies.

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Or, if you're not working a job that lets you set hours like that, sign up for Amazon Mechanical Turk or Google Opinion Rewards.

Or farm up plat by running fissures to get random prime parts and sell those as "prime junk" in trade chat.

There's certainly an allure to directly farming for the thing you want using the process that yields that item as opposed to farming platinum (which just feels like working a job, despite its time efficiency), but the odds are so bad on getting a built forma that it's better to treat it as a neat bonus for doing the objective, rather than as a reason to run it.

There's the Google Opinion Rewards App if you feel like giving Google some more data. It's not really surveys, more often than not it's single questions, but I've received ~11€ in the year I've used it.

>Google> We value your privacy too. We get $32.67 for your privacy annually!

And if you answer this survey, we'll give you $0.15 in credit to use in our ~~Tracking App~~ Play Store!

https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

You get between 8 - 40 cent for simple questions (Germany).

i took me 6 months for 10 dollar.

Google Surveys app: you download it, they send you really short surveys that earn up to $1 per response. It's app store credit but it adds up quickly and when you want to rent a movie or but phone games or books you've got free money

Link: https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

You answer surveys based on things like your location history, search history or YouTube history and get paid for it.

You don't get a lot but you can use it to buy things from Google Play, and that includes using your balance to pay for things in Pokémon Go.

https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

Thanks! It's a Google app you can install on your phone that tracks your location and search history to offer you surveys to do for small amounts of credits. You're basically selling some privacy for money, up to you if you think it's worthwhile. :)

Yep, https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

They are usually like 3 questions, take about 10 seconds and you get 15-50 cents or so. I do them every time they are available which is like once a day. They've paid for every mini set.

https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

Ive never done them. Ive heard you get 30¢ to $1 a survey on average and they take a minute or two. I dont have details but i know a quick google search could give you other websites that have paid surveys and more information

Basically you answer a short survey about shopping habits in return for money you can spend in the play store. It's one of Google's many attempts to know everything about us.

You can find it here

If you have an android phone you can download an app from google

https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

Basically Google will randomly send you surveys about stuff, often stores you've visited or youtube video's you've watched, then pay you a couple cents for completing it (in google play credit).

It's super inconsistent, I'll go weeks without a survey, then get like 3 over a weekend. But it usually gets me most of the way there to a GSSR.

I've been taking what feels like a lot of photos over the last several years. If I had to guess whether I took an average, below average, or above average number of photos, I would honestly, although baselessly, guess the latter. I'm reasonably certain I have an above average number of photos. ...which are currently consuming less than 12GB.

Google appears to be selling 200GB for $1/mo.

A dollar.

I'm pretty sure I earn more than that from Google Opinion Rewards anyway. :-/

Use remaining reward points by December 2

Go to your panelist account to use your reward points by December 2:

• If you have $5 or more in reward points, you can choose your gift card as usual.
• If you have less than $5 in points, you’ll get an Amazon gift card on December 2.
  

Looks like they're going to wait until Dec 2 to give you the remainder?

As a kid it was landscaping stuff, as an adult who's trying to r/declutter I sell a lot of unnecessary things.

Also Google has a thing called Google Opinions and every so often I'll get surveys worth anywhere from 10 to 40 cents. It builds up and then I'll spend my 4 bucks on an phone app or movie.

I tried to do Amazon Mechanical Turk but I messed something up in the application or something because years later it still won't approve me.

Io inter Google Opinion Rewards kaj Amazon Mechanical Turk. Plimalpi fari etajn taskojn, kiujn robotoj ankoraŭ ne povas bone fari.

>AND for those of you saying “I don’t has cash” be a big boy/girl and learn a trade

Thats not really a good excuse either. https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/ I used that alot when I had android and unless its changed the surveys are based on places I went, like if I went to bestbuy I would get a survey about the store.

For the people unaware of it, download this app on your phone if you're OK with its privacy implications: https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

Google will occasionally ask you about places you've visited, about YouTube or about yourself and you will receive somewhere between 5 and 50 cents for each survey. Those surveys are never longer than a few questions so they take less than a minute, and you can save up a nice amount of money this way, though you lose credit after not using it for a while (a year I think).

It's not available everywhere and you may or may not be OK with Google knowing more about you and tracking your location, but if it's available in your country and if you're OK with the implications you can save up a nice amount of money.

Even if you don't have money to spend, just spend someone else's money. Let Google spot you.

https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

They give you 10-60 cents per survey and once you have enough, you can buy the cheaper gem packs. The downside is you get to see just how creepy Google is because the information they gather about you becomes very apparent when they send you surveys like

• We notice you just used Google Assistant, can you tell us about that?
• Did you like that restaurant you just ate at? Can I have a picture of your receipt?
• We noticed you searching for a particular product, about how often do you think about that product?

As far as I can tell, they gather this information about you anyway. I haven't figured out how to turn it off, so I may as well get paid for it.

As long as they're not giving out my name and phone number I don't care if they collect anonymous data. I even use Google Opinion Rewards to pay for ad-free versions of apps. I guess they'll be coming for me soon. (I don't use Facebook though. I don't trust that company with my personal info.)

You are extremely unspecific about what you're talking about. Do you mean this? If so: It's by Google itself. Yes, it is legit, if you feel like spending your time sharing Data about yourself (moreso than you do anyways).

I don't understand why something like that should be "illegal".

It'll take a while, but if you've got an Android phone and/or tablet, you can easily earn a positive balance on Google Play by doing surveys on Google Rewards.

There's Google Opinion rewards which gives you Google play store credits for answering survey questions. The questions for me are based on visiting places/businesses and my YouTube viewing history.

I don't think the questions that are asked/answered on Google Maps will give you any Google play store credits.

https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/ install the app, answer quick surveys and Google pays you with credit for the play store. I've primarily use it to buy premium version of apps, donations to developers or in game credit for mobile games. I haven't directly paid for an app in a 6+ years.

https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

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It takes a while to accumulate real money, I had been doing them for a while before I started playing Ingress. Each survey might only give 20-30 cents. Many are location based (coincidence ? haha) So if you go to Publix grocery store, 30 minutes later you might get a survey about it.

Haven't heard of it. However, I do use Google opinion rewards. It occasionally asks questions like "How would you rate your experience with [brand/ business]?", and you get a couple cents added to your Google Play.

It's not much, but over the years I've managed to save up for star packs here and there.

With Google Opinion Rewards every game is free.

If you want free money, consider downloading Google rewards - https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

You can earn about a dollar every few weeks for doing random surveys? It usually just asks me if I went to a store and if I used a credit card, then gives me some money to use in their app store. Not sure if this works for ios

> A.K.A the Whale's Choice™

I feel like that's a gross exageration. It's not like you can only use paid gems for the banner which is something many games do. The 3 per month 240 gem pack unlocks this for 4 bucks.

https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/

If you install this app, google will give you google play credit just to take surveys. You do not have to be a whale to pull the featured summon.

Google’s Opinion Rewards is one I use. The payout is to PayPal when you the balance is $2. The surveys a sporadic and dependent on what you do. Read their docs. I’ve so far gotten $10 out of then over a 3 month period.

Same here. I end up getting a very specific Google Opinion Rewards survey after a certain query to my Home Mini(s), but i've never once had any of our four devices ask me to rate the experience after asking it something.

Think i'm closing in on the ~twenty dollar mark for my "rewards" -- and I even bought a $0.99 app a while back. I'm totally okay with trading my data for a few decent apps.

From the Screenwise Meter page:

> If you are not a registered panelist with Google, this app will not function

In order to be a registered panelist, you need to have a code to sign up for Google Opinion Rewards

My guess is that someone approaches you in a public setting, or maybe you sign up at a physical event.

But we aren't talking about users just reading terms of service. We're talking about an app that has very specific rules to even use the app in the first place.

Lets look at the Screenwise Meter page again:

> If you are not a registered panelist with Google, this app will not function

In order to even get this app to work, you need to be a registered panelist

In order to be a registered panelist, you need to have an invitation code

And then from their panel research page: http://www.google.com/landing/panelresearch/

>Volunteers are recruited for these panels who agree to have their Internet activities measured, and are rewarded for their participation. Prior to participating, all panelists have a clear understanding and agreement with Google about what involvement in the panels means.

You're talking about an app where someone is probably installing it with the help of a Google employee because they're consenting, in person, to a market research program. Do people not realize that these types of programs have been around for before the Internet existed? Have people forgotten what it's like to be approached by some random market research person in a mall? They seem to be painfully clear what their intention is. What are they doing that's wrong here? How more clear can they be?

In any case, I'm not supporting Google here. The fact that they circumvented Apple's ToS with a special certificate is definitely grounds for it to be revoked. I'm just arguing that Google wasn't being as scummy as people are suggesting.

Here is the link to the Google Survey Partners site: https://surveys.google.com/google-opinion-rewards/publishers/how-it-works/ Here is a link to Co.Design article about Google conceptualizing it back in 2011: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcodesign.com/1665338/is-googles-survey-wall-experiment-brilliant-or-evil

I don't think these surveys aren't all that bad, as they offer some source of income to publishers in a world of free content. Answer the survey, then google pays the publisher. There's no way Google can stop people from submitting a BS survey answer for free content.