What used to be the best PTS
Written: Aug 10 '00
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Alladvantage is my eyes used to be the best Pay to surf company. However, recently, cheaters have completely destroyed Alladvantage. When AA first came out, many believed that it would revolutionalize advertising on the internet through "adstream" - streaming ads. They did revolutionalize advertising. Once they were created, within months, dozens more of these Pay to Surf companies started coming up like gotoworld. At that time, Alladvantage was doing great - making millions in profits, and delivering millions of dollars to internet surfers that used their company. However, these internet surfers began to get greedy and began to cheat. Hundreds of different cheats sprang up, and "emulators" - software that emulated the adbar to make AA think that a person was really using the bar, instead they were not. Referral generators were created and many users had hundreds of fake accounts. Using these referral genereators and emulators, they were literally receiving checks of thousands of dollars, money that they did not earn whatsoever. Alladvantage came back with new adbars - ones that would detect the usage of such utilities. Thousands of accounts were cancelled and it looked like AA would win against the cheaters. But the damage was already done, costing AA millions of dollars and ending up having to change management on several occasions. When AA first came out, they allowed users to be paid for 25 hours a month, which was soon to be expanded to 50 hours. Due to the unexpected results from the cheaters, the hours were dropped signifcantly for people in most parts of the world - from 25 to 15. Many who were making $80 a month were struggling to reach the minimum payout rate.
Alladvantage really isnt that good unless you have loads of referrals. I had 172 and barely passed the minimum payout rate. Alladvantages bar is quite bulky, and uses up a lot of system resources. What is a real annoyance of the bar is that you have to be surfing to get paid. Which means if you have are reading your email, playing little windows games, chatting on your instant messanger - you dont get paid. They are available in most major countries, and have different payout rates for each. For those internatonal users in Europe nad Asia, it is a good idea to use AA because it may be profittable there. As for people linving in America and Canada, I recommend you stay away from them. There are much better companies out there.
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Member: Qaayam Pabani
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