desktopdollars.com

Bit of an over the top title? Read on and then you tell me. ** Please note the use of the word 'bastard' in the title is not as a profanity. It refers to them being fatherless sons of... ** Desktop dollars for the uninformed is one of the few remaining 'get paid to surf' programs, most of the others having withdrawn from the race due to lack of advertising revenue. Basically you download a small program, that when installed creates a bar on your screen that flashes adverts at you. You are supposed to be paid a set amount for every hour that the bar is running, and you are surfing the net. I used it when it first launched but after ...  Read the complete review

I have downloaded several sites before, offering to pay you seemingly endless amounts of cash. I'm using desktop dollars at the moment. I haven't made a great amount of cash, but being as I'm on the net a lot. Thought might as well download a prog, where I could possibly earn some extra cash. Once you've downloaded it, you can have it at the top or bottom of the screen. At first when the adverts start displaying on your screen, you tend to notice them. After a while, you tend not to take any notice of them. It also has a feature where you can listen to various music, or listen to the news.It also has a search engine.Enabling you to search the net for ...  Read the complete review

In my past experiences, I have signed up to plenty of pay-to-surf schemes and I haven't recieved a penny! They have annoying bars that take up 1\8 of your screen on 800 x 600, which is OK for people with high screen resolutions, but not for people with smaller monitors. There is an advantage with one of the schemes, All Advantage. The bar for this has got the occasional interesting advert and a search engine. On the whole, if you sign up for these schemes, you'll be signing yourself up for a lot of 'spam', around 10 e-mails a day if you're unlucky, and you'll be wasting your time! Of course, you hear of all these people that have made ...  Read the complete review

Wow after visiting so many of these get paid to surf sites you suddenly start to realise there is league table where certain sites are near the top and others near the bottom like this one Desktop Dollars! Dependant on how you rate sites you may see differently. The first thing I rate is how tacky does the webpage look, lots of flashing banners, are there enough to make you have a fit! and this one is no exception. All the pay to surf sites I have visted usually either have an in depth guide on how the system works for you and them, how much you get, how often you paid etc,etc. This one just seems to skim over the top its not to clear, and the fact they advertise ...  Read the complete review

"Oh, Liberty, oh, Liberty - what crimes are commited in your name". Ripping people off is a crime allright (not that we'll see any pictures of the Statue Of Liberty through our letterboxes in our lifetime. Desktop Dollars promised to pay it's users for the inconvenience of having adverts on the users' computer whilst on line (and believe me, it is a considerable inconvenience participating in the destop DOLLAR program (to give a more apt name). Q. What is all the fuss about and what are you whinging about? A. Streaming adverts are sent to your computer but more recently, those damned annoying javascript ...  Read the complete review