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Back in the day, when porn was in the big online bubble state, sites would offer over $.50/click to their site. When I first started (ab)using that system, the

Back in the day, when porn was in the big online bubble state, sites would offer over $.50/click to their site. When I first started (ab)using that system, the sites immediately bumped it to $.25/click and then $.10/click, and now I think its like $.000034/click, or basically nothing. They would also give you additional money for actual sign ups, and had a bonus day on every month where you made a significant amount more for sign ups. Ultimately I think I cashed in like $7000 when I was 12 before shit hit the fan and the company my buddy and I were using sent him a check that bounced. It was tough explaining it to our parents, but ultimately everyone knew about alladvantage and we would always say it was something similar to that. We also cashed in on alladvantage, I think it was $20/month just to have the thing on for a few hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage

TeMPOraL 11y ago
> AllAdvantage was launched on March 31, 1999, by Jim Jorgensen, Johannes Pohle, Carl Anderson, and Oliver Brock.[2] During its nearly 2 years of operation, it raised nearly $200 Million in venture capital and grew to more than 10 million members in its first 18 months of operation. Holy hell! So that's where those companies had money from. As a kid I always wondered how those bullshit "install our app, get paid for surfing" companies got their money; it turns out they were burning VC funds all along...
yummyfajitas 11y ago
Interestingly, India has several AllAdvantage-like mobile apps. Kids install them and do various tasks (mostly watching ads) and take payment in the form of mobile recharges.
kragen 11y ago
So, it's your fault that porn is free? :) It's interesting that this article touts "Sandvine, the primary source for internet traffic research," without mentioning the company's unethical astroturfing on Glassdoor http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Sandvine-Reviews-E32683.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Sandvine-Reviews-E32683.htm and their criminal past activities disrupting BitTorrent: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/06/21/1814239/sandvine-ceo-says-internet-monitoring-a-necessity http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/06/21/1814239/sandvine-ceo-...
prawn 11y ago
We might've had similar starts. I bought my first computer with cheques from a porn affiliate program. Soon after I started, they required visitors click through an age-verification to confirm and pay out. So I put together a protected zip file of M-rated images and set the password as the xth word of the yth paragraph on the page after the age verification. That only worked for a couple of weeks, but it was enough.
- rickdale 11y ago
  Thats great. I remember at some point they would only accept users from their direct banner ads, which I could never generate money from. I am sure a lot of people used these affiliate programs, but I rarely ever hear anyone talk about it. Only one other time and it was in a movie and I am not certain it was as similar as we are talking about. Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

TeMPOraL 11y ago

> AllAdvantage was launched on March 31, 1999, by Jim Jorgensen, Johannes Pohle, Carl Anderson, and Oliver Brock.[2] During its nearly 2 years of operation, it raised nearly $200 Million in venture capital and grew to more than 10 million members in its first 18 months of operation. Holy hell! So that's where those companies had money from. As a kid I always wondered how those bullshit "install our app, get paid for surfing" companies got their money; it turns out they were burning VC funds all along...

yummyfajitas 11y ago

Interestingly, India has several AllAdvantage-like mobile apps. Kids install them and do various tasks (mostly watching ads) and take payment in the form of mobile recharges.

kragen 11y ago

So, it's your fault that porn is free? :) It's interesting that this article touts "Sandvine, the primary source for internet traffic research," without mentioning the company's unethical astroturfing on Glassdoor http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Sandvine-Reviews-E32683.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Sandvine-Reviews-E32683.htm and their criminal past activities disrupting BitTorrent: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/06/21/1814239/sandvine-ceo-says-internet-monitoring-a-necessity http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/06/21/1814239/sandvine-ceo-...

prawn 11y ago

We might've had similar starts. I bought my first computer with cheques from a porn affiliate program. Soon after I started, they required visitors click through an age-verification to confirm and pay out. So I put together a protected zip file of M-rated images and set the password as the xth word of the yth paragraph on the page after the age verification. That only worked for a couple of weeks, but it was enough.

rickdale 11y ago
Thats great. I remember at some point they would only accept users from their direct banner ads, which I could never generate money from. I am sure a lot of people used these affiliate programs, but I rarely ever hear anyone talk about it. Only one other time and it was in a movie and I am not certain it was as similar as we are talking about. Great stuff, thanks for sharing!