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Originally Posted by machine  So basically what you are doing is stealing money from the advertisers and giving it to Steve. You get the benefit while someone else pays the price. Wow isn't that really noble of you...
You need to redefine win-win. You are basically clicking on ads with the intentions of giving a third party's money to Steve so you don't have to pay for the value you are receiving. Sounds to me like it goes something like this:
Steve wins - he gets the money(but he actually loses because it's stolen money)
You lose - because you are a thief stealing the advertisers money
Advertiser loses - because they pay for a click that has no way to earn income for them
So in reality it looks like, lose-lose-lose |
Advertisers, and in turn the companies that sell ad space to them like Google, have thought of this too. If everyone started to do it Steve would likely "lose-lose-lose" the ads and the revenue he gets from them.
Going back to the topic, I can see why he would promote Agloco. With the number of readers he has, he'll probably get a nice additional income from referrals. On the other hand, if I sign up I would probably get a few pennies per hour. Even if it's for reading web pages that I would visit anyways, I'm better off doing regular work or even playing online poker. Now if I can get paid to watch an ad with each hand...
I can believe that this is something new because it's cutting viewers in on the usual deals between advertisers and content providers, but I don't really see it helping me unless I spend a lot of time trying to sign up others. Content providers make money with hundreds of thousands of page views, and most viewers will never approach that.