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Has anyone heard of this web browser extension, they seem to be a legitimate one although they are still not available worldwide (US only). I was watching a Youtuber when the time to talk for the sponsorship came and I was surprised because this is the first time that I have heard of it. It works like Honey Browser Extension although this one does not find coupons to save money, but it instead gives you bitcoin or cash. If you can try it out let me know.


https://www.lolli.com/

It's a pretty reputable service and you can trust that it's legitimate. That's if, if you're fine with what you're giving them in return. They have to make money one way or another, right? As they're a business.

I don't have any sources to back this up, but it's probably safe to assume that they're giving discounts in exchange for your data(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). If you're fine with that, then use it to receive some sats after every purchase. If not, then don't.

That seems to be the case, I think they also earn money via partner stores. They partner with stores and the extension will only be available in that store which in turn makes a guaranteed profit for both the extension and the store. Now that I think about it, it is pretty scary if they give away our personal details, but I do not think that will be the case for this websites.

I have not heard about it or read anything about it one thing is for sure though they are collecting users browsing data like google just be careful installing extension to your browser since a lot of them are just there to steal something, better look at Brave browser you can also install browser extension on it and you can also earn brave token think about double earning just buy surfing but always run AV before installing anything./

Google, Facebook, and many big companies collect our data without paying us a penny. So it is reasonable to exchange our data for some free sats. At least when we support their business, they support us back by sending remittances. Those big fours are like dictators in this field where they don't care much about what the customers are thinking

it will be a big problem if they have your private data such as a password or bank number, etc. But as you say, they are legitimate enough for us to download and you.

Judging by how it works and the reviews they have so far, they seem not to have any ill intentions at all

On the Firefox extension that I checked out, they have about 2000 users and ~66 reviews. 6 of them are 1 star but talk nothing about scam or not being paid.
One of the reviews made 7 months ago seems to explain how it works;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lolli-earn-bitcoin/reviews/1543711

You should also be aware about a few warnings made my Mozilla and the permissions it requires

Also, there are a couple of previous bitcointalk threads that talks about this browser extension and it seem like they are paying their customers back if they do some shopping online although it had a weird name LOL! Suitable for people who loves shopping online.

[1] Lolli Chrome Extension - Bitcoin Cashback for Online Shopping (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5130765.0)
[2] what do people think of Lolli? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5085812.0)

..Unless you’re like me and a lot of privacy-conscious people here that refuse to use these data collecting services 🤷‍♂️.

But then again, we’re not forcing anyone to not use their service because I completely understand if someone wants to. It’s merely just a heads up for people to know what they’re exchanging for the free sats.

You need to read more information on this topic^[1].

If you are not in the United States and are not ready for the ID verification process, then perhaps it is best to avoid using this adds on. Also, if you care about privacy, you should stop using it, because what you are searching for may be tracked.

read more about them KYC here^[2]

In short, avoid this service.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/bh55wg/i_used_lolli_today_for_the_first_time/
[2] https://twitter.com/Pahmpit/status/1224818590186000384

The idea of them of stacking sats is convincing but just another term for rebates though and it will end when you start reading complains and kyc bs regarding the platform.

To be fair I haven't heard about this one, seems it offers the service similar to Rakuten but pays in bitcoin. It's affiliate marketing, they bring customers to certain companies and in exchange of this, they give some percentage to these companies. First of all what I would say is that it seem great bitcoin supported analogue of Rakuten and that's welcome for me. On another hand, you are right, these companies earn money from us + use us for their statistics to further develop the marketing of their products and that's bad. I think it's disrespectful but they pack it like they take care of us.

Theoretically it doesn't hurt to have this, although Lolli could track your purchases if you are privacy centric as others have mentioned.

At the end of the day I highly doubt that it's going to give you insane cashbacks. And with the current high BTC price + withdrawal fees it is very unlikely that you'll be able to retain a large portion of your earnings anyhow. Both things to consider.

So you would probably find that you get a lot more back with fiat extensions that have no withdrawal fees, if you are truly into this stuff. And I think before that you need to ask yourself whether the rewards justify the info you're giving to some random third party.

I can't say I've heard of any browser plugins like the one you've described, however there's a Twitter plug in that enables you to tip the author satoshis for their tweets.i

Think it's based on the lightning network, but I haven't tried it out myself.

Have you got the description round the right way?

I do think so too, if we had been making purchases online, doesn't it hurt that we use this extension since our data as a customer is already stored and it is already available for companies. From my research about this extension, they only track your online purchases. It won't give you that amount but at the very least, you can get something out of it right, especially if you are a frequent online shopper, might as well get that opportunity. I haven't heard of any fiat based extensions but there is another one called Honey that scours the Internet for coupons to select shops. In the end it is a matter of choice whether you want to do it or not.

That extension will make us try to buying many products too often to get free bitcoin as the reward. I do not use any extension on my browser. I am too afraid of the inside of the extension. After I got a search engine malware, I decided to remove all the browser extensions because I do not want to get the same experience. Did you try to use that browser?

As I have said in the OP, it is only available for US only, my country is a Pacific Ocean away so even if I try, no dice. It is understandable that you would not trust any extensions anymore but have you look into how did you get that malware? I find it odd that an extension can cause a search engine malware, and can you describe what happened. If you do not want to share that is okay, I am just curious because this is my first time hearing that kind of thing happening.

I hope this is not one of such can steal our information or cause trouble that will be unknown to us, instead of having an extension that gives btc i will rather use the faucet that gives small satoshi at intervals, better to be safe than be sorry.

Can someone explain how it works exactly? As I understand, you have to purchase something from online store using their affiliate link and then they gives you cashback in Bitcoin? Correect me if I understood it wrong. Well, it doesn't sounds bad, but I'm not sure that I would want to pass their KYC just for it.
Any way, so far they are only accepting customers from USA and I think trying to use it through VPN isn't solution.

I do not think that there is a need for KYC, there is no affiliate links, you just need to download the browser extension and buy item from the stores that they are partnered. You can try using VPN but you also need to configure your geolocation.

You can try to use VPN to install the extension and try by yourself. When I install the extension before, I do not know if that extension contains something that I am not aware of that. But suddenly, when I want to use Google to search something, the default search engine was changed to SearchSafe (if I am not mistaken). I also try to install Google Authenticator on my browser, but I heard that in that time, there is a malware that malicious attack on the user, so I uninstall and moves my GA to other devices.

But related to the extension, maybe you can get a reward after you shop. But I feel that is not right for me to buy something online.

Whatever floats your boat, I do think that it is a matter of preference. I do not know much about this browser extension but how can it hurt you when you are using an adblock browser extension, your ISP already knows your location and anything that you are doing on the Internet. If you already used computer for online shop then it can't hurt because your customer details are already in the storage and being passed somewhere on the Internet. US users need not to worry because their data is already sold by their own governments. Here are some articles to support my claim.

https://nowthisnews.com/news/aclu-demands-us-government-turn-over-data-bought-from-muslim-prayer-app
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/data-brokers-selling-personal-information-60-minutes/
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/the-u-s-government-is-secretly-using-cell-phone-location-data-to-track-us-were-suing/

Just stop using chrome browser and firefox, switch to brave browser and earn crypto while you surf the web, this is more pure and clean than looking for browser extensions, I don't trust them because they end up doing something else on your PC

I don't trust browser extensions either, there was one that meant to be search engine of a kind and it went to gather data or steal my data, we need to be careful with extensions, they create the for a purpose and they infect your PC with other things, I'd rather use other means

Its actually the same thing since you are also giving up your data to brave browser for you to earn their token while if you are with lolli you get Satoshis, so which would you prefer here? But for me, I'd rather not use any of them.

To be fair, satoshis are hard to come by. Governments of our nations already have our personal details, and believe it or not they are already selling our data to companies, even if it is not sold to companies, if you ever signed up for a newsletter or membership cards then companies already had your details too.

But the risk there is if our exchanger accounts and other vital details will be stolen that's why its no for me for those website gathering data site who gives satoshi in return since its really annoying for me and I find it so risky. But since mk4 give a vouch about this maybe I will look at it but I'm not planning to use that since chrome is enough for me and this one is the one of most safety browser available.

On the website it says "Lolli is currently US only", that means that extension will be unusable for many people? Or do I get it wrong?

It sounds too good to be true where an extension could give out bitcoin?How much you do able to gain?

Im not really a fan on downloading randomly without any legitimate feedback and responses.We know the chances on downloading a malware is high.
This is why we should really be aware and careful.

So, be aware.

It's not free money you have to buy or purchase from their affiliate stores
it's more of a cashback rewards system, there are a lot of it in the internet you don't have to install an extension, you just need codes for it you can Google for reputable cashback rewards sites.

If you want to put it that way, that is okay. That is still a money saved from buying online although I am not a fan of online shopping because most items are overpriced compared to physical store counterparts. I am curious about this one that you are talking about, the one where you put codes, and other same websites. Hopefully, you will respond because I am genuinely curious.

ah .

 its clear to me now , i thought this works like a brave browser that you get rewards for using the browser but i can see that it was only a cash back after succesful purchase but im not also a fan of online shopping because like what @lorence said , price are expensive and shipping cost too , not to mention that there are delays and wrong items after it has arived .

verry hassel in short , what is only good at lolli is that they pay btc as a chashback but most cashback service pays using the leading payment methods