Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

mikep22 wrote: »

I was just messaging them on facebook, apparently the listener (chrome extension) is not made by them, which was news to me....

If you right click and hit "Prolific Assistant" then underneath the heading it says "offered by Kadauchi".

Kadauchi is the pseudonym of, basically, a guy who does surveys who doesn't like checking the page frequently!

You can tell because underneath the "related" tab, and "others by this developer", it has exactly the same thing but for MTurk (Which again, is not associated with Prolific in any way shape or form!). Also he's trackable down on Reddit for those who want questions answered, though he's fairly inactive.

It doesn't explicitly hit you in the face repeatedly that it's not an official plug in (though, why would it?), but it doesn't hide it. And when Prolific have put out pleas for people not to completely batter their site to pieces with requests, it's always been "can people who use site checkers not kill our site for users by checking every second and please drop to once a minute max", and they've never said "can people not use OUR site checker" - because they don't have one!

It's an unofficial app that presumably Prolific have been happy to let people use... up to a point. I imagine if people misuse it much more I guess they'll have to do their best to block it and upset some people, because they must be getting to the break point where they're going to upset less people by banning it than by keeping it!

(I hope you tell your students to check where the programs they install on their browsers comes from!! :rotfl:)

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Its back with (the ill behaviour)....eligability for pc and laptop!

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

If you right click and hit "Prolific Assistant" then underneath the heading it says "offered by Kadauchi".

Kadauchi is the pseudonym of, basically, a guy who does surveys who doesn't like checking the page frequently!

You can tell because underneath the "related" tab, and "others by this developer", it has exactly the same thing but for MTurk (Which again, is not associated with Prolific in any way shape or form!). Also he's trackable down on Reddit for those who want questions answered, though he's fairly inactive.

It doesn't explicitly hit you in the face repeatedly that it's not an official plug in (though, why would it?), but it doesn't hide it. And when Prolific have put out pleas for people not to completely batter their site to pieces with requests, it's always been "can people who use site checkers not kill our site for users by checking every second and please drop to once a minute max", and they've never said "can people not use OUR site checker" - because they don't have one!

It's an unofficial app that presumably Prolific have been happy to let people use... up to a point. I imagine if people misuse it much more I guess they'll have to do their best to block it and upset some people, because they must be getting to the break point where they're going to upset less people by banning it than by keeping it!

(I hope you tell your students to check where the programs they install on their browsers comes from!! :rotfl:)

I think I will not be alone in assuming that a site listener, with a Prolific logo (that they can only use with approval of prolific as it would fall under copyright) is either made by, or championed by Prolific.

With the branding, no, I didnt take any more steps then normal to find out it wasnt prolific. Why would you? Its like something with Nike Swoosh on, you would assume to be connected with Nike....its a normal connection.

Very fortunately, I do not do software licencing with my students, for it is dull as the survey I have just done, but one of my colleagues gets very excited about that sort of thing. She brings in cookies too, so she gets forgiven...:eek:

GreyAndGold wrote: »

I always wondered who those people are that fall for the email phishing scams that obviously still must get enough returns to make them profitable, I think I've found the answer :eek: company branding counts for nothing on the internet!

That logic is....truly odd......again I maintain that 90% of people will assume the listener is directly connected to Prolific.

And yes that is from an IT lecturer.