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Today I’m going to cover two apps that utilize your spare bandwidth to pay you money. Honeygain and Earnapp. These two apps are advertised as programs you install on your pc or your phone and they utilize some of your bandwidth for legitimate organizations to test ad playbacks and things based on your region. On paper this sounds horrifying. Especially from a security perspective.
I initially tried to run Honeygain as an docker container through a VPN, but it doesn’t really like VPNs. So I’ve instead installed it on a windows VM. Honeygain has been running about a week now and it says it’s utilized 8.08GB of traffic. How much money does that pay, 810 honeycombs. Since the initial account creation gives you 3000 honeycombs and tells you it’s worth $3, that seems to be 81 cents over 6 days. About 10 cents per gig of traffic.
According to this list, I’m at 4050 honeycombs, but earned 4454. I’m not sure about the discrepancy, but the cut off honeycombs are for “Jumptask” which was a connector that would earn you more money in some crypto that you could send to Coinbase or something. I spent a whole day trying to link it to a payout and turned it off because it kept failing. The winnings section is from their “achievements” and the daily “honey pot”. The biggest bang for your buck is the referral button at least according to every youtube video regarding this app.
I haven’t dug too deeply into the security of this program, but I also have it isolated on my VM. You can run it on up to 10 devices but it has to be on separate internet connections or it doesn’t count. If I hit $20 and actually can successfully payout, I might share my referral link, but this experiment seems to risky to give out to others.
Earnapp on the other hand, showed up in searched about making money passively on computers that are already running. I installed it today on the same Windows VM running Honeygain. It magically gave me a $2 balance and shows that my device will earn a rate of $5 a month.
They also offer game downloads with payouts like Swagbucks and I might try them out down the road, but for now I’m going to let these two experiments run. If they can pay out $25 in 1 month then that’s money for the snowball stocks.
~~Miniwing~~