[EDU] Faucet risks

[burky156]

Thanks for the warning sir

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[bitcoworld]

Nice, thanks that you took some time to make this therd it helped me aot in 2015
appertiece it

[burky156]

Faucets are dangerous you are very right..

[bitcoworld]

Faucets are dangerous you are very right..

Explain why faucets are dangerous?
You mean more new faucets which scam after some weeks
are mostly this ones which are on FacetHub or System or whatever the Facuet MicroPayment Sites plops of
the groud like all kind of other scam businesses... If you use one of this kinda new not really long Proofed
businesses it is mostly your own fold trought lack in expirience you made a bad decition to join there...

[miccb]

Some knew that there are consequences in using faucets.
What was provided here showed a detailed picture-well appreciated.

[zikabra]

Faucets are dangerous you are very right..

Explain why faucets are dangerous?
You mean more new faucets which scam after some weeks
are mostly this ones which are on FacetHub or System or whatever the Facuet MicroPayment Sites plops of
the groud like all kind of other scam businesses... If you use one of this kinda new not really long Proofed
businesses it is mostly your own fold trought lack in expirience you made a bad decition to join there...

Scam is smallest problem.
Bigger problem would be ads which are spreading malware.
And I read that any site can mine monero and hide it from users. Faucets can be dangerous.

[shaw1]

To be entirely fair, the faucets mining Monero can actually help the user earn money too. When done right.
(I'm assuming you are referring to Coinhive, and their service here. Not affiliated, but do use.)

For the idiots out there that *do* hide using it, and don't have users opt in, yeah. They're just idiotic jerks. Especially since the earnings from mining make a-ads look like generous benefactors.

The so called malware is just a script that will hijack resources. It isn't particularly dangerous, unless you are on mobile with limited battery, or have a cpu that likes to overheat. 

I don't think faucets are dangerous. I just think it is very easy to fail. There isn't much money to be made, so people just close up shop. And to be honest, can they really be blamed? If they promised payouts, they should fulfill them, but I can commiserate that it isn't much fun to have to finish payouts on sites that turn out to be unprofitable.

[winspiral]

Monero mining is an opportunity.
I agree that trying visitors to mine against own volunty is not fair.
I propose at my visitors to chose and they can follow the earning from other people who have opted to mine XMR.

[TianaStam]

Faucets are dangerous you are very right..

Explain why faucets are dangerous?
You mean more new faucets which scam after some weeks
are mostly this ones which are on FacetHub or System or whatever the Facuet MicroPayment Sites plops of
the groud like all kind of other scam businesses... If you use one of this kinda new not really long Proofed
businesses it is mostly your own fold trought lack in expirience you made a bad decition to join there...

Well, all ther reasons of why faucets are dengerous were discussed on the most first page kinda. So, I don't know what kind of explaining and proves you are asking for.
I am a brand new here but I already understood that it is better do not even try this. Many people wrote that faucet it is just wasting of time

[pernikar]

Hi, new guy here (new on the forum, not in crypto). I'm a bit unclear on the rules of this sub. I see a lot of threads here by users announcing/promoting their faucets with no problems from the mods. So I though I'd post a thread introducing my own faucet as well and it got deleted.



Why did mine got deleted while others are allowed?

[Adam556]

Hi, new guy here (new on the forum, not in crypto). I'm a bit unclear on the rules of this sub. I see a lot of threads here by users announcing/promoting their faucets with no problems from the mods. So I though I'd post a thread introducing my own faucet as well and it got deleted.



Why did mine got deleted while others are allowed?

Was it posted in the correct sub? Did it take the form of a referral link or direct?

[pernikar]

Was it posted in the correct sub? Did it take the form of a referral link or direct?

Oh I see, I used a referral, my bad. Thank you.

[shaw1]

I am not sure about links to app stores, but ref links, and codes are not allowed.
However, in your forum signature, I believe you are allowed to use such links.

[snakebyte]

Can't make money anymore

[abasinkanga]

Thanks for this information on faucets. The comments also helped... I enjoyed reading through.
Truly there are many pitfalls with faucets... But like everything crypto, there is the good bad and ugly everywhere... Just take a look at ICOs you will see what i mean.
In conclusion, most faucets are unreliable, but those that are able to weather the storms of time, will prove the best and most reliable, like freebitco.in (the recent strategy they are using to entice users to store their bitcoins on their site is pretty commendable, though i pray its not a two edged sword in disguise) and coinpot ( this site is much commendable with their strategy of collecting all coins in one place and converting between them all, then the juice of it all is their recently introduced coinpot token)

[noibuoncuadem_ver1]

I'm scared scam 

[hanibe]

i'm talking on tap is.btcnews it's great to claim every 5 minutes. has acceptable offers. the EXCHANGE and Crypto Surprise and the TRANSACTION.
for Remove offers coinbase as solutions.

[BayAreaCoins]

The key to faucets is faucets that do their business "off-chain".  Using the internal services of different companies loses some positives with blockchain, but the savings far exceed the negative.

Just keep your balance building up on-site off-chain and then when it is worth something... move it on-chain to your wallet.

It took me years to figure this out, but alas...

I've paid some SERIOUS fees in batching TONS of little shits.  Also, your wallet will start to run like hammered hell with a ton of micro txids.  Trust me.  Not fun!

[pas30]

Hello,

I create with a friend a faucet now, the website is finished and we will launch the faucet in some days.
I have a question : why faucet would be Dangerous or risky for members

Example : we pay directly with coinbase with no minimum and too with 2 others payments methods expresscrypto and faucetpay. So for our example we can't be a scam because you can receive money from 1 Satoshi only

Our website have too some games like betting and lotto, all is 100 % free and you can win big money with this games.

Dear faucet users do you have any idea or services you want to find on a faucet ?

Thanks

[okorieemmanuel]

Faucets gave me my first cryptocurrency so I can never admit they are dangerous or even risky? There is no risk for users. Users should simply check the website online for virus using sucuri site check before using it.

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

If the website redirect you to another page (e.g shortlink) then
1. don't click anything
2. Check the new landing page for virus using sucuri site check.
3. If it is clean, then continue and earn from the faucet.

Some Faucets don't redirect users. I recommend such faucets for users. This Faucets are not dangerous, just use it with caution the same way you would browse a new site.