So I told people about the survey program that uses a vpn for some of the sensitive data they collect from surveys. Which in turn is flagging people on atlas earth when it opens it. This is where I am at atm. I am hoping they are truly looking into it but it sounds like they are looking into hardware and not programs? I am not sure… still waiting on my AB from Zoup! I am not holding my breath on that either.
Any survey program that forces you to go through a VPN is shady at best, and borderline illegal at worst (for them, not for you).
Why?
Most legit surveys are targeting specific demographics, including location. Using a VPN can mask/change your location.
So, you’re in Wisconsin but they want to show you a survey about chocolate in Virginia? Just change settings in the VPN and voila… you’re in Virginia and can now answer the survey.
Problem is that the company/group paying for the survey is interested about opinions of chocolate for people in Virginia, not people in Wisconsin pretending to be in Virginia.
To be clear, this is not YOUR doing… it’s the unscrupulous app trying to make money, so they want to get your answer on surveys that you normally wouldn’t qualify for.
I wonder how things work with people that use star link. My friend uses star link and it showed i was in Texas yet i was in Atlanta Georgia
i cant even spin i havent spinned tbe wheel in a week ok thanks
i cant spin the wheel for diaminds because i dont have no diamonds
I don’t think its coming any time soon. The biggest spenders in this game use vpn’s. So I don’t believe they are in a hurry to attack their own profit.
Hi, did someone say Wisconsin? If we’re talking beer then we’ll get the best opinions from the cheese state. Might as well VPN the answers in. Facts
No it is not shady it protects your information. I highly doubt they were changing my location encrypting it yeah I would go with that. And they payed very well.
Sub I made $60 in a month, it was starting to slow down but man sometimes I would walk into a store and they would give these rare surveys that paid like 10 dollars you take a picture of something explain how a pop display was take a picture and bam 10 minutes and you make $10. It was pretty decent. But I’d rather keep my account on atlas earth.
No clue that’s kinda weird if the phones gps says one thing and your connection says another.
You have to go out into the world and find them. They respawn each day in random spots
So get some diamonds
Lol I am just trying to figure out where diamonds came in this post, well til you brought it up anyways 
I wouldn’t be so sure about that VPN’s can get you banned now. Although you are 100% right people were using them and bragging about them using them in the past. I am not sure if that’s happening anymore. I mean hell a survey program set it off on me I don’t know how often it did it but if you are playing with a vpn on constantly I would hope they could catch that.
I guess it could be shady but I feel like it protects your information. I highly doubt they were changing my location encrypting it yeah I would go with that. And they payed very well.
Sub I made $60 in a month, it was starting to slow down but man sometimes I would walk into a store the good ones were location based and they would give these rare surveys that paid like 10 dollars some more some less you take a picture of something explain how a pop/soda display was take a picture and bam 10 minutes and you make $10. It was pretty decent. But I’d rather keep my account on atlas earth.
But I would go back if I quit atlas earth it was pretty good beer money.
If it were solely for the purpose of protecting your info and not for them to be able to scam/stuff higher paying surveys that you shouldn’t qualify for, then it would be optional and not a requirement that indirectly borks other apps like AE.
By your own admission, it paid very well. Of course, there’s a reason for that… lol. You were likely completing surveys that (unbeknownst to you or the company bankrolling the survey) you didn’t actually fit the target location/demographic. If they mask/edit specific info using a VPN, then you look like the targeted demographic, and *bam* $10 survey can pop up. They of course make money off that as well, and don’t have to worry about not meeting clients’ needs. Imagine saying “sorry we weren’t able to find 100 people that met your extremely highly targeted demographic within our user base.” Embarrassing for them, not to mention they don’t get paid. But if they use their VPN to tweak things… you get more money and now they can get paid. The company paying for the survey won’t know… so who’s going to complain?
I’ve done several reputable survey programs in my day. Most are either $1 or $2, with the vast majority of surveys getting screened out… and the ones above $5 I usually get DQ’d during the screening process because they are looking for extremely targeted respondents. I remember there was only once I fit the target demo, but that was a sweet $65 payday (it was actually a 2- week in home trial of a soda, and had 3 surveys related to it… got $10 each with a $35 bonus if I completed all 3 by the deadline).
High probability that if you were getting them as frequently as you say you were, it was because they were cooking the books without your knowledge. Either that, or you live in the perfect location for survey data demographics (which, I guess, is possible… lol)
And they paid very well.
FTFY.
Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn’t help you), it is only correct in:
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Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.
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Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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I get your point but every app has their own thing. I am sure they didn’t know popping a vpn up was going to interfere with the tos for atlas earth just as much as the ad company didn’t know. Otherwise they wouldn’t have pushed that ad on atlas earth and given people warnings. I totally see your point “if” they are using a vpn in that way. I really hope that’s not the case.
As far as getting booted out of a survey, that happens when they reach how many they need surveys get closed. That does happen quite a bit. But I get a lot of surveys per week and if I do them as soon as I see them it’s a good chance of being paid. I have yet to get a trial I won’t now but those sound like fun.
And actually Kroger, meijer, target and Walmart were the ones that would pop up the good surveys as you would expect those are the companies that put out the surveys big customers. I dunno man I won’t say it’s not legit, but I will say if your going to play Atlas earth don’t do the surveys on “surveys on the go.” I told the wife since she plays atlas earth once in a blue moon just delete it and do the surveys with me.