Pay to surf or Paid-to-click is a business model that became popular in the late 1990s, prior to the dot-com crash. Essentially, a company places advertising on members' screens and pays them from advertising earnings. A pay-to-surf company would provide a small program, commonly called a "viewbar", to be installed on a member's computer. Advertisers' banner ads were then displayed while the member was browsing the web.

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  • Pay to surf or Paid-to-click is a business model that became popular in the late 1990s, prior to the dot-com crash. Essentially, a company places advertising on members' screens and pays them from advertising earnings. A pay-to-surf company would provide a small program, commonly called a "viewbar", to be installed on a member's computer. Advertisers' banner ads were then displayed while the member was browsing the web. Since the viewbar tracked websites that the user visited, the pay-to-surf company was able to deliver targeted ads for their advertisers. Advertisers paid the pay-to-surf company a small amount (typically US$0.50) for every hour of a member's surfing. Members were usually limited on the amount of time per month for which they would be paid to surf (typically 20 hours). However, pay-to-surf companies also paid their members for each new user referred to the company (typically US$0.05 - US$0.10 per recruit). Thus, it was profitable for a member to garner as many referrals as possible, encouraging some users to recruit members using spam, though officially forbidden by the user's agreement. The first and most well-known pay-to-surf company was AllAdvantage. It launched in March 1999 and grew to 13 million members in little over a year with the multi-level marketing system of recruiting new members. The scheme capitalized on the notion that anyone could make money on the internet without much effort. AllAdvantage’s success attracted many imitators. At its peak, there were several dozen pay-to-surf companies. AllAdvantage had US$175 million in venture capital; its imitators did not and thus their members were never more than a small fraction of AllAdvantage's. After 18 months, even AllAdvantage ceased operations. At that point, AllAdvantage had paid out over US$160 million to its members. Many members of smaller pay-to-surf companies were never paid when the companies shut down. By late 2001 with the dot-com bubble collapsed, very few pay-to-surf companies remained. This is not surprising since 100% of the revenue came from internet advertising, which was the area hardest hit. As with many Internet business models, pay-to-surf companies attracted people trying to defraud the company out of money. First, as noted above, the companies had to deal with spammers, often having to terminate member accounts. They were also required to get parental permission from members under the age of 18, many of whom flocked to these programs as an easy source of income. Finally, utilities started appearing which allowed users to simulate surfing activity. Some users even created mechanical mouse-moving devices which ran around their desks, i.e. "JiggyMouse". These programs and devices allowed users to get paid simply for leaving their machines on. This began an arms race between the pay-to-surf companies who built fraud-prevention software and fraud program developers, with each releasing increasingly sophisticated versions of their software.
  • Surfbars sind mittlerweile eine ebenso beliebte Möglichkeit, während des Surfens im Internet Geld zu verdienen, wie bezahlte Startseiten und Paidmails. Sie zeigen dem User während des Surfens im Internet Werbeanzeigen, wofür sie ihm dann in bestimmten Abständen Punkte gutschreiben, meistens alle 30 Sekunden. Diese Punkte werden dann in Guthaben umgerechnet, das von einer festgelegten Summe an ausgezahlt wird. Manche Anbieter erlauben auch, sich das Guthaben in virtuellen Währungen auszahlen zu lassen.
  • De afkorting GPT staat voor get paid to, een aantal mogelijkheden die het internet biedt om geld te verdienen. Een GPT, ook wel betiteld als online spaarprogramma, is een website waar de leden de mogelijkheid krijgen om geld te verdienen. Meestal bestaat dit vooral uit het lezen van reclame e-mails of het invullen van enquêtes. Bedrijven hebben behoefte aan naamsbekendheid of aan bekendheid van hun producten. Zij hebben de mogelijkheid om een GPT-bedrijf in te schakelen. GPT-websites zorgen er om hun beurt weer voor dat de leden van dit netwerk reclame-e-mails ontvangen of enquêtes kunnen invullen. Voor de leden van het GPT-netwerk zit hier een kleine vergoeding aan vast.
  • Surfbar - program komputerowy instalowany dobrowolnie na komputerze użytkownika, wyświetlający reklamy, za co użytkownikowi oferowane są korzyści finansowe. Zwykle zajmuje około 3 cm na dole, lub górze ekranu - w zależności od preferencji użytkownika. Surfbary zwykle naliczają nam punkty za każdą minutę. Punkty natomiast wymieniane są na pieniądze na koniec każdego miesiąca.
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  • Pay to surf or Paid-to-click is a business model that became popular in the late 1990s, prior to the dot-com crash. Essentially, a company places advertising on members' screens and pays them from advertising earnings. A pay-to-surf company would provide a small program, commonly called a "viewbar", to be installed on a member's computer. Advertisers' banner ads were then displayed while the member was browsing the web.
  • Surfbars sind mittlerweile eine ebenso beliebte Möglichkeit, während des Surfens im Internet Geld zu verdienen, wie bezahlte Startseiten und Paidmails. Sie zeigen dem User während des Surfens im Internet Werbeanzeigen, wofür sie ihm dann in bestimmten Abständen Punkte gutschreiben, meistens alle 30 Sekunden. Diese Punkte werden dann in Guthaben umgerechnet, das von einer festgelegten Summe an ausgezahlt wird.
  • De afkorting GPT staat voor get paid to, een aantal mogelijkheden die het internet biedt om geld te verdienen. Een GPT, ook wel betiteld als online spaarprogramma, is een website waar de leden de mogelijkheid krijgen om geld te verdienen. Meestal bestaat dit vooral uit het lezen van reclame e-mails of het invullen van enquêtes. Bedrijven hebben behoefte aan naamsbekendheid of aan bekendheid van hun producten. Zij hebben de mogelijkheid om een GPT-bedrijf in te schakelen.
  • Surfbar - program komputerowy instalowany dobrowolnie na komputerze użytkownika, wyświetlający reklamy, za co użytkownikowi oferowane są korzyści finansowe. Zwykle zajmuje około 3 cm na dole, lub górze ekranu - w zależności od preferencji użytkownika. Surfbary zwykle naliczają nam punkty za każdą minutę. Punkty natomiast wymieniane są na pieniądze na koniec każdego miesiąca.
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  • Surfbar
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  • Surfbar
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