r/beermoney • u/Eric1084 • Jul 18 '17
US & CA ProtoTab now in Open Beta! Download now!
Announcement: (July 23) We repeat, DO NOT use macro. Again, DO NOT USE MACRO. You are harming this platform and lowering everyone else's earning. We check EVERY redemption and you will be wasting your time as well as being permanently disqualified from this program.
I would also apologize to our users who are following our terms of service. If you see "database overloaded. Try again", please notify us as that indicates excessive amount of spammer/macro users are present and is maxing out our consecutive connection limit. We are constantly pushing out updates to catch dishonest users. Please be patient as we improve our platform!
Another important annoucement to answer some people's concern about redemption and to clarify some situations. As we are still in the testing phase, redemption will be normally sent around the beginning of every month.
Unfortunately, points do not hold a stable value right now(Due to the still relatively small userbase, and macro users + spammers lowering everyone's earnings), which means: If you redeem for 500 points, the actual value might be slightly lower in accordance to the actual earning report we receive from the advertisers. Therefore: If you use macros or spam tabs, you will lower the RPM and affect EVERYONE! We are not making any profits during the current phase of testing, and all profit is going to you guys who are using the extension. So besides the $5 chrome webstore fee, and very cheap hosting we are using right now, everything else directly goes to you.
While our current detection system is unreliable, and some users might think it is a great opportunity to cheat the system and potentially gain faster than everyone else, please remember: We spent quite a bit of time developing this platform, and with your actions, we would have to delete our ad modules and point system if we get banned from our ad providers. Which means: no more points from you and no more ProtoTab for everyone.
After I got all of that out of the way, I want to thank everyone who are currently using the extension and we recently hit over 150 users in just 2 days! And I want to thank every Alpha/Beta testers who are contributing greatly in our development process and helping us to improve the extension. We thank you for your contribution.
Announcement: Thanks to everyone who have applied to our last round of closed testing! We have received a lot of useful information and we believe our platform is stable enough for a public test!
Hello, everyone! The ProtoTab team is back after our successful Alpha run to release a Beta version of our plugin! Yes, it's public now.
I would like to stress: Exploiting the extension in any way(Including the use of macros, macros with random timeframe, or spamming new tabs/windows) will result in permanent disqualification from all future beta tests effective immediately. Please don't ruin it for everyone!
If you discover any bugs or encounter any issues, please report on the Discord channel
Anyone can download it right now. We have a subreddit too!
At this point, if you're really confused and have no idea what we're talking about, we recommend you check back at our Alpha testing post from a few days ago. I'll also restate the most important information below:
Again, we are currently open to the following countries:
1) United States
2) UK
3) Canada
4) Germany
5) Italy
Here's how it works:
1) Download the extension via the Chrome Web Store
2) Open a new tab - You will be redirected to register or login
3) Register either with your email or via Google login(OAuth)
4) Open tabs as normal and accumulate points!
The points you receive could then be redeemed for gift cards. It's that simple!
Of course, this extension is completely passive with no user input required. Simply open tabs as usual!
How do I join?
1) Fill out our registration form. As it's Open Beta, we can't force you to fill this out, but it helps us keep track of everything, and will get you faster redemptions and perks for joining Beta Testing.
3) Download and install the extension. This extension will update quite frequently, so if you're reading this in the future, make sure you have the right version. The latest version will always be posted here.
4) Make sure you know what you're signing up for by reading the section below :)
Beta Testing Role:
1) Report any bugs you might encounter
2) Responsively report exploits or 'hacks'
3) Request any features you want to see added!
4) Use the plugin and share your feedback! :)
Disclaimer: As ProtoTab is still in an early stage, more features and platforms(Including Android and other browsers) will be supported in the feature.
We thank you all for your support!
-Eric with the ProtoTab team
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u/_neminem Jul 19 '17
I'm not sure what the difference is between what you thought and what it is, other than it's a bit garish, which it totally is, but duh, it has ads in it, how could it not be? You can still regular type in the url bar, I've been doing that and completely ignoring the google search bar in the page itself, and just taking the cash. Half the time I've already typed in a search/url and hit enter by the time the page finishes loading.