Hideout

dave2319

Was just thinking of posting about that. It's the same for everyone, as far as I'm aware, and started about a week ago. The reduction from 2.5 to 1.6 is if the Hideout site isn't your active window, otherwise it's down from 3.3 to 2.2.

Shame they've cut the points, especially to such a notable extent, and when they're still robbing us through not sorting out the crediting issues as well. Lots of ads in recent months but nowhere near the right amount of points, and their video player's been riddled with bugs for months since they made changes to it. Maybe they're not interested in fixing those issues and can't afford to.

pecunianonolet

pebblebeach8 said:

I noticed that Hideout has reduced the daily points to 3 and some videos are only worth 1.6 now instead of 2.5.  I have only earnt 12.6 points  (including bonus 3) in an hour.  Is it just me or are other people not earning as much?  I am in Opera GX on laptop (in case that makes a difference).

Noticed the same but hardly using it anymore due to the ongoing issue of high CPU usage and bloating memory use killing the entire browser. I am not willing to run my CPU at 20-30% and reduce the CPU lifetime and performance due to the temperature increasing, plus the increased electricity usage. 

Guess it is a measure to try and get finances in order at the provider to keep it running but more or less it is a slow dying of the service.

dave2319

Although it's great that things have improved since last summer, when the sites were offline for a while and then they gradually picked things up again with the creation of new sites, I think overall there must be some fundamental issues with their business.

I mean, they started out as EngageMe and then changed to Hideout, and now earlier this year changed to PixelPoint, and have come up with all sorts of new sites over the years. In fairness their ad inventory's good at the moment so perhaps the new sites have helped to get more ads, but the underlying problems must still be there.

Am continuing to use them but I do think it's a concern that they kind of keep moving from one incarnation to another with all the site and name changes.

pebblebeach8

I got an email last week, which didn't really read properly, so took another look and looks like they have teamed up with Amazon fire.

Excerpt from email:-

Hi PixelPoint User,

We’re thrilled to announce that the PixelPointTV app has officially launched on Amazon Fire! 🎉 You can now enjoy all the amazing features and earning opportunities of PixelPointTV right from your Amazon Fire device. Check it out here: PixelPointTV on Amazon Fire.

Logging in is super easy – just use the same credentials you use for the PixelPoint website. If you’re looking for ways to boost the amount of points you can earn per day, the Fire TV app offers even more opportunities to earn than our websites, with the possibility to earn more points per ad watched.

pebblebeach8

JULYVIDEO for 40

mikep22

I am getting naff all in terms of adverts or video credit right now. And it is annoying that the daily code has been reduced to 3 points! Very poor again right now.

DCF383Mse

Good Afternoon... To anyone who may be interested, I'm getting some credits on the channel below:
- If anyone knows of any other Channel that is Crediting; Thank you for the return.

recipepanda.tv
channel/sweettreats

pebblebeach8

I tried recipepanda and didn't work for me, but managed to get some points on cozycrafts today

pebblebeach8

Just in case anyone else wants to keep an eye out as well, it looks like Hideout/Pixel have stopped the Wednesday code and are doing one on Thursday, just checked but it is fully redeemed.

https://www.facebook.com/PixelPointTV/

pebblebeach8

VIDEOHEAT for 55