Saw this in an ad and was surprised it was real.
Earn $10-$50 a month just by driving safely
The app is free to download, its called 'MyDriveHero'.
It encourages safe driving, and also gives you a 'safe driving score' which you can improve by practicing safe driving
It even automatically records your driving trips so you don't have to worry about having the app open or anything
Referrer and referee get $1 Credit.
It sounds like a scam, how do they make money?
I'm sure they do not care about safe driving.
Selling your movement data?
If I install the app will be like wow this guy sure does like KFC
Selling your movement data?
I am glad you figured it out.
Already have a backseat driver that does exactly what this app does bar the $10-$50 a month
We may collect, hold, use and disclose your Personal Information for the following purposes:
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So they have you agree to aggressively harvest heaps of your personal info and persistently track your location for a measly few dollars? Yeah nah.
I'd be wary, it's got the Herald Sun logo.
Seems alright on the surface but there’s always catch, which seems to be harvesting and selling your location data - whether you’re driving or not.
Your privacy is worth more than a few bucks.
Don't sign up for the paid subscription and get money. I already sell my location to google so dont really care about the privacy stuff.
Don't sell your data so cheap!
People need to stop treating their data/geospatial movements so frivolously.
I mean if you are the sort of person who drives around with Waze/Google/Apple maps open anyways then you are already giving this data way (especially with Waze/Google).
So for those people, go for it.
For those who care about privacy then maybe stay clear.
So I give them info on everywhere I go, and they give me half a cent per kilometre. Just over $70 per year for the average driver.
Sounds good. Not.
It is an innovative way to spin a data harvesting scam. To not just record where you drive, but record how you drive too, and call it a safe driving app.
subscribe for $8 a month so someone can track me and sell my movement data and maybe get a giftcard if i drive enough? sign me up!