Gener8 – Browser Extension that rewards watching Ads

[Ad- gifted product] When I heard about Gener8 – an extension that pitched itself as being similar to Honey, I was quite interested in checking it out. For those of you who aren’t familiar with browser extensions, they are add on apps to your browser that can do a bunch of different tasks. Honey is one that I use often, as it automatically searches the web and finds discount codes, then uses them to get discounts when online shopping. Gener8 isn’t looking to give you coupons and instead rewards you with virtual currency for watching ads if you use the browsers Chrome or Firefox.

Ads are all over the internet, on virtually every website you see. It does sound strange to get paid to view ads, especially as ads are how other companies do make money on their site. I was honestly very skeptical, but after using the browser for a few weeks now, I think I’ve figured most things out. Gener8 seems to replace ads on websites with their own ads – including putting their logo in the corner. My theory is that they then earn money from these ads, which allows them to give users rewards while still keeping some of the revenue. Personally, I do not know how the split would work for the websites that they are putting their ads on or how any of this works within the backend, but after watching some ads, viewing some sites, and generally using their platform – I had a bunch of their currency.

Gener8 has their own marketplace that you can spend their currency in. This marketplace is actually quite creatively set up. The first section allows you to change your currency into some money for charity, which is always a good touch. This allows users to donate to the three selected charities, working together to get to a goal as a community. It’s a lovely idea. If you scroll pass the charities, you then get to a bunch of trails and discounts. Instead of full products, most of what is on offer in this marketplace is these trails and discounts. 50% off beer kit subscriptions or 25% off coffee subscriptions – if you are someone who loves trying new stuff, these trial offers might be worth the small effort of spending your currency on them. I ended up following the trial offer for Feel Multivitamin, which worked when purchased with the Gener8 currency. I was able to easily sign up and use the code.

After the discount offers, you have select amounts of money off of a variety of gaming equipment – most of which are expensive so having £25 off of an expensive item is something that can help you make the dive and try out that new Razer keyboard or purchase a new headset. Discount codes and free trials that you might have been able to get free elsewhere aren’t the most exciting thing, which brings me to the items that you can out rightly purchase, with no additional money, using your Gener8 currency.

These are gift cards and merchandise. Gift cards come in the form of £5 for Amazon and Game, £10 for Spotify Premium, £4 for Steam, £8 for Audible and £15 for Netflix so far. These gift cards are only available for a limited time, with timers ticking down to two or three gift cards, allowing you to race against others as soon as they go live in hopes to get one. I ended up grabbing one of the £5 Amazon gift cards, which did work on Amazon. Merchandise seem to be related to Gener8, including stickers and a t-shirt.

I was surprised and quite happy with the fact that Gener8 did work – giving me a few pounds off of Amazon in exchange for setting a timer and watching ads I was already watching. I feel as the site fills up with users, it’s going to be more challenging to grab these ‘premium’ items like gift cards, but the company has stated that more will be added as the site grows, as well as a vaster variety of items. There is a cap to the number of one to the number of items you can purchase a week, which gives people a better chance.

Gener8 is very simple to implement and install, so if you are looking to get a little bit back for watching ads, it’s worth checking out and exploring the extension yourself.

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