Hideout

mikep22

MollyR said:

I generally go with the idea that the more popular ones will run out of adverts quickest, as more people are watching them - and Tucker Budzyn is  superstar millionaire!  At the moment I am running Fun Facts Zoo, at the bottom of the menu list, having started with a short group of videos of a young man with his pet bunny (well, one doesn't have to watch them!) until it started to repeat.

I never thought about that aspect. I usually have the same ones on the go all the time lol. The same for the other channels like I have "Happy Hour Review" for recipe Recipe Panda. Mostly as in the past theyve got a decent amount of points! But will have a go with some different onces  

Doctorboring

I have tried using hideout again but I am still not getting any adverts, may I ask browse's are you using?

MollyR

I use Chrome for things like Hideout and Swagbucks, for which I have to enable cookies, Javascript etc. (and clear the lot down every time the browser is closed).  I seem to get advertisements for a few hours each morning, and then they dry up;  I assume that Hideout's clients will pay for only so many views a day.

dave2319

Very similar for me but using Firefox, and have also got it set up to delete the cookies every time I close the browser. Whether that's really necessary I don't know, but in my experience it seems to be useful.

pecunianonolet

Using Chrome and used Puppybear this morning. No points and after less than an hour I was told I reached the daily watching limit. Great earner while it lasted...

dave2319

Pecunia, if you're getting that message in under an hour, presumably you're on their naughty list!

Although we don't have to complete any captchas there, they're "protected by Recaptcha" and presumably use info from that about whether people are genuine users etc. Do you complete their captchas in the same browser at other sites and not regularly delete the cookies?

When I used to use Recaptcha and not delete the cookies, I'd regularly have issues because I click the refresh symbol to generate a new one if it doesn't show 9 separate images in the squares, and it didn't seem to like that. Over time, without deleting cookies, it took more and more refreshes to generate 9 different images, so I switched to a different browser which is set up to delete the cookies on closing. Now I don't have that problem - it always generates 9 pictures straightaway or within a few goes. (I find those are so much easier to get right than the single-image ones.)

So, presumably I have a good score with Recaptcha and am wondering if that's why I have a better experience with Pixel sites.

pecunianonolet

dave2319 said:

Pecunia, if you're getting that message in under an hour, presumably you're on their naughty list!

Although we don't have to complete any captchas there, they're "protected by Recaptcha" and presumably use info from that about whether people are genuine users etc. Do you complete their captchas in the same browser at other sites and not regularly delete the cookies?

When I used to use Recaptcha and not delete the cookies, I'd regularly have issues because I click the refresh symbol to generate a new one if it doesn't show 9 separate images in the squares, and it didn't seem to like that. Over time, without deleting cookies, it took more and more refreshes to generate 9 different images, so I switched to a different browser which is set up to delete the cookies on closing. Now I don't have that problem - it always generates 9 pictures straightaway or within a few goes. (I find those are so much easier to get right than the single-image ones.)

So, presumably I have a good score with Recaptcha and am wondering if that's why I have a better experience with Pixel sites.

They use Recaptcha V3, which is hidden and visible. I don't get them or solve them anymore, that's what AI is for nowadays. 

The Captcha score is build by IP address, they also capture other details like operating system, browser settings and version, etc. They also most likely use fingerprinting and of course check window activity levels. You can spoof that, however it gets increasingly difficult with Chrome and of course you risk to get blocked. 

So while I know some technicalities and some nice addons out there that are very nice little helpers, my Pixel runs in a clean Chrome Profile without any of that. I delete cookies and cache when the browser is getting closed.

I think they may have been looking into their finances and had to cut down massively to keep it profitable. Maybe I just did cost them too much lol.

dave2319

Oh well, I'm not sure why your experience is so different to mine and some other people's, so I'll leave it there with suggestions. Maybe it just varies.

pecunianonolet

dave2319 said:

Oh well, I'm not sure why your experience is so different to mine and some other people's, so I'll leave it there with suggestions. Maybe it just varies.

I have just tried Pixelpoint again and got like 25 points in the last 30 min. Used to have this in like 5 min.

Running the "draw art collection" videos as they are mostly short. 

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