Watching videos to make money, playing games to make money? Have you become a tool for making money apps

　　Have you become a "money app" tool for making money?

　　Right now, watching videos to make money, playing games to make money, walking to make money... Many elderly people are addicted to using their mobile phones to complete the "make money task."

However, some participants found that the task of making money is always inevitable by watching advertisements, while the advertised high returns are difficult to realize, and they may even face problems such as personal information leakage.

　　The user is tied to the app

　　A reporter from the Workers’ Daily found that money-making apps are not new and have been all the rage before.

After being unable to cut the "leeks" of young people, some apps have turned their targets to the elderly.

　　After retirement, Yang Baodong became a money-making APP player.

These apps claim to be able to make money without paying any cost. After registering, users receive various tasks. They can collect tokens from the platform through operations such as watching videos, signing in, and inviting friends. The tokens are then exchanged for cash. The jargon is called "Zero".撸".

　　Starting from getting up every day, Yang Baodong opens more than 10 money-making apps in his mobile phone to do tasks.

In more than two years, he has downloaded a wide variety of APPs, including those that make money by watching ads, those that make money by guessing idioms, and those that make money by playing games.

"Some apps claim to make money by walking, eating, shopping, and sleeping."

　　Yang Baodong calculated that using more than 10 software at the same time, brushing it every day, he could make about 100 yuan in one month.

　　Another money-making APP player Wang Haibin revealed that some APPs will behave generously when users newly register. Once they come up with a newcomer coupon of more than ten yuan, the user saves the money in the wallet in the APP, and then looks at the various applications in the APP. The task of making money is not difficult, and the mood immediately rises.

"An app I have used, I need to earn 1 yuan in rewards after using it. I have to browse 500 minutes of various videos and advertisements, and save 30 yuan in rewards to redeem it. It takes 250 hours in total."

　　Zhang Zengyi, a professor at the School of Communication of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, analyzed that in order to redeem the tokens already obtained, users may continue to sign in, do tasks, or invite more friends to participate, and these operations will allow users to earn more points.

In the end, the user is tied to the APP and it is difficult to stop.

　　May have caught up with personal information

　　A few days ago, Qingdao citizen Jin Jian followed an activity to receive a 100 yuan red envelope on an APP. As soon as he clicked to enter, the system showed that he had received 98 yuan, and he could receive 100 yuan as long as he did the task.

"The task becomes more difficult as the task goes on. Not only need to invite friends, but also to buy goods." Jin Jian recalled that when he reached 99.2 yuan, he spent 10 yuan to buy a bottle of hand sanitizer, and the amount only increased to 99.21 yuan, so he gave up. Up.

After a few days, the page shows that the event is over.

　　Uncle Yu, who lives in Jinsong Street, Beijing, stumbled upon an app that makes money by guessing the name of the song, and asked to guess 50 songs correctly to withdraw the cash.

Uncle Yu said that they were all old songs at the beginning, and every time they guess a song correctly, the system will prompt 1~2 yuan to arrive in the account.

There are more new songs in the future, and every time you guess wrong, the system will play an advertisement for tens of seconds.

"Finally guessed 50 songs correctly, you can withdraw 98 yuan. But the system shows that you can only withdraw 0.3 yuan each time, requiring more than 300 operations, and there are long advertisements during the period." In the end, Uncle Yu gave up the withdrawal.

　　The reporter learned during the interview that some users who have used the money-making app, not long after downloading, began to receive frequent harassing calls on their mobile phones, including online loans and ordering.

　　Wang Haibin said that some money making apps need to jump to other interfaces to download software when doing tasks, and registration and real-name authentication are required.

"Personal information is easily collected, packaged and sold. It was originally to make money, but I didn't expect it to become a'commodity'."

　　Industry needs to be regulated

　　Zhang Zengyi said that the money-making app created a very low-threshold money-making method, which aroused people's desire to give it a try, and fits most people's mentality of "being idle is also idle, and there is no loss anyway".

Some money-making apps do not cheat money, but they use the user's time, social relationships, and mobile phone memory to occupy attention. Users are not making money on money-making apps, but are reduced to their tools for making money.

"Every time I watch an advertisement, I help them earn a lot of money."

　　According to Zhao Liangshan, a senior partner of Shaanxi Hengda Law Firm and a well-known public interest lawyer, according to the Advertising Law, if advertisers or APP operators use publicity routines to induce consumers to make false statements, such as authorizing personal information, Personal privacy, resulting in illegal collection and fraudulent use by others; advertising content does not match the actual situation, setting tasks and actual publicity are very different, or maliciously exaggerating the effect of APP use, causing consumers to download and use it, both advertisers and APP operators Suspected of placing false advertisements can be punished in accordance with the Advertising Law.

　　Zhao Liangshan believes that, on the surface, there is a difference between APP's tasks and advertisements, because APP's tasks are under the guise of consumers' profit, so as to increase the popularity of the APP and increase the number of customers.

But from the point of view of purpose, APP ultimately uses publicity to make money as a means to achieve the purposes of data collection, video placement, and advertising output. Therefore, it is still publicity and should be subject to the advertising law.

Zhou Yi

Zhou Yi