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Sumeya H.

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7 Reviews by Sumeya

  • YouTube

7/18/23

Do not ever download the app. Un enable it. I now use the web version.

The app is horrendous. Shows you advertisements based on your online activity. Obvious spying.

Creators know much more information on you then you think. Including when your online, your subscriptions and what content you watch.

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  • Duolingo

7/18/23

Un-necessary animals, frequent notifications and the obvious spying are just some of the reasons for deleting duolingo.

I highly recommend you to turn away from duolingo and select other language apps

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  • New Look

7/17/23

Turn off the music in your Westfield store. Makes the experience uncomfortable and seems like a subtle psychological habit to influence people into purchasing your items.

Please stop.

  • Eventbrite

7/9/23

Looking for islamic online events and to be confronted with an 'Secular Book Discussion about "The God Delusion" with Zoom' event is negligient at best and evil at worst.

Be careful of when searching on eventbrite for such content especially since they like to promote 'anti-religion' and other questionable ideologies on their site.

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  • Panelopinion.co.uk

6/21/23

I used panel opinion, I got £10 payouts and £20 at one point.

I also got the opportunity to participate in a market research opportunity for £40.

However, I left this platform after a market research opportunity which required me to test a haircomb. I signed up and they promised an incentive as well as allowing participants to keep the haircomb.

I used the haircomb, submitted my review and waited for my incentive. After a while, I realised that I have not received any incentive and so I contacted panel opinion. They came up with an excuse and ultimately made it clear that they would not be giving me my incentive.

Despite my previous positive experiences, this deception was enough for me to leave this platform completely.

I am a Muslim so I will follow the words of the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم
"The believer is not stung twice from the same hole."

  • Swagbucks

6/21/23

Like many other survey sites, when you begin to use these survey websites, you are able to quickly earn points through surveys and thus make money.

However, slowly, they become more familiar with you and steal your data. There's no need to find out more about you because they already have this data they can sell off if they wanted to.

So you'll notice that you receive less surveys and if you do receive surveys, frequent qualifications or scammers telling you 'error' or 'you have been disqualified' after completing most if not all of the survey.

The games are even worse. I tried a game that was so ridiculous I am almost sure this app was created purely to extract users personal data. You need to reach an exceptionally high level within a certain number of days (e.g. 7) to get points (convertible to money) that even a person who spent every day completing would fail to earn.

In addition, the gaming app will show you disgusting and Inappropriate advertisements too.

Deleted the app and deleted my swagbucks account.

Better to protect my privacy and mind.

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  • branded surveys

6/21/23

Like many other survey websites, they track your online activity and that's how they target you with specific surveys. For example, if you recently visited starbucks, trust that they know and will send out a survey asking you to review your favourite coffee stores.

If your privacy is not enough of a reason to stay away from this platform, it's deceptive. In the beginning when you first join, you'll get lots of survey opportunities and will see your points boost and you'll quickly earn.

It seems as though for branded surveys and many other survey sites, 'familiarity breeds contempt'. The more you use, the more you'll notice that you get disqualified for surveys and the slower you'll see your points rise which means less earning.

Another point is that you may complete a full survey and dedicate a significant amount of time just to be shown a coded 'error' message (suspicious) or 'I am sorry but you have been disqualified due to your responses'

I decided to leave this platform so at least I am not giving permission to allow this corrupt website to steal my data and waste my time.

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Sumeya Has Earned 15 Votes

Sumeya H.'s review of Swagbucks earned 2 Very Helpful votes

Sumeya H.'s review of branded surveys earned 4 Very Helpful votes

Sumeya H.'s review of YouTube earned 5 Very Helpful votes

Sumeya H.'s review of Duolingo earned 4 Very Helpful votes

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