Google Offering to Pay Web Users to Track Their Every Move

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/339-182/9962-google-offering-to-pay-web-users-to-track-their-every-move

Less than a month after announcing a controversial new privacy policy that shares user data across all its sites with no opt-out option, Google is introducing a system to monitor all online activity of those who participate in a program called Screenwise. In exchange for unrestricted access to information on your every online move, the search and software giant is offering financial compensation.

By signing up for Screenwise and installing a browser plugin (only Google Chrome is supported at present), you'll be given $5 in store credit on Amazon. For every three months you continue to provide Google with browsing data, you'll earn an addition $5 gift card, up to a total of $25. Only those over 13 can participate and, perhaps not surprisingly, signups are currently on hold due to overwhelming interest.

[robinlynne]

1. oh boy.

[onehandle]

2. Google and Amazon. Vampires of the Internets. nt

[Vehl]

5. pfft...at least they aint Apple, the greatest thief in the computerworld.

nuff said.

[RKP5637]

3. Suckers!!! n/t

[Vehl]

4. This is for a limited survey/study project which is for volunteers only. Simply a paid survey.

Typical hysterics from news(?) agencies which have no clue what they are talking about.


No different from the "take this survey and get paid 2$ for it" type of stuff people run across all the time.
Maybe Apple fanboys ought to stop writing half assed articles and trying to pass them off as news.

Knowledge Networks, with whom Google is partnering in this endeavor, is a company that organizes surveys and such for companies that want to know about their visitors or customers. “Fill out this quick survey and you’ll be entered to win an iPad!” — that sort of thing. Some Knowledge Networks users have received offers to be part of the first 2500 households in the study, which would pay $100 up front and $20 per month.

It's only for 2500 people and one has to volunteer for this. The "ahhh the Google's are taking over my internetz" rant is really getting old.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/08/google-offers-to-pay-for-people-to-have-their-web-use-tracked-minutely/

[flexnor]

6. and they can put that financial compensation right into your accounts

since they know your userid and passwords for all your financial stuff