Tue 22 Feb 2005
Hacking Paid For Surf Sites :: Using Firefox!
Posted by hevnsnt under Hacking , Internet[156] Comments
In case you have not yet heard, but Pay for Surf type sites have RETURNED!!
This is good news for those of us who spend UNGODLY amount of time online (yours truely of course) The site I am referring to is
SurfJunky.com. This site uses a Framed Browser window to pop-up ads every 30 seconds it will pop that window up and show you an ad. You click off the window and continue surfing..
Well, I don’t know about you, but I used to make a killing off of AllAdvantage with those browser hacks. If you run the program for 24 hrs/day @ $.75 / hr = $18 / day = $540. Might as well get paid for all that surfing you do. So lets find a browser hack to clean up on this..
Using a cool hack in Firefox, we can keep this window in a tab and keep it from “popping up” yet continue racking up the $$$$… Here is how!
After you sign up at Surfjunky, you will be presented with a link: “Click here to start the Surf Junky browser”
Click on this link with your Scroll wheel, or hold down CTRL when you click on the link to open it in a new tab.
Now, HOWTO MAKE IT NON INTRUSIVE:
Using firefox.
In firefox go to Edit/Preferences/Web Features
Click the Advanced button beside Enable JavaScript
uncheck:
Move or resize existing…
Raise or lower windows

Notice the Bling
***UPATE 2/23 Looks like they hate Firefox
Well as of this morning, users that are trying to use Firefox are presented with window that Firefox is now banned… Well that just sucks. Luckily we can get an extension that will change your user agent string to IE’s with an icon on your toolbar. Go to:
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/download/

For Opera users:
* Open the “Click here to start” link in a new window (not a new page).
* Set the “reload every x seconds” to something appropriate (I chose 1 Minute), in the case the Surf Junk link stalls for some reason.
* Minimize or resize window.
* Browse in alternate tabbed window, leaving a separate window for Surf Junky.
I’ve got it running in a background tab. No popups, I don’t notice it’s there, and my account is going up!!!!!
***UPDATE***
Only run this in ONE TAB! Users have been reporting that their money goes DOWN when running it in multiple browsers/tabs/computers!
Also it appears as though they sometimes run ads that don’t resolve. This puts the program on “hold” if you are not watching the computer… You need something to hit “Reload” for you. Well, luckily for us their is a plugin called ReloadEvery. Install this plugin and have it reload the page every 5-10 mins. That way you can just leave this computer to making you the big $$$
**User Submitted Updates**
From: Surge1
If you type javascript:void(xseconds=9999) into the add page then it update every 9999 seconds, wasting less bandwith.
From: DeviousTrap
If you use the Minimizetotray extention, you can open this in another window and send it to your tray.. That way you never even see it!

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After you have your browswer working, lets hack it so it auto-refreshes correctly
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If you have used SurfJunky at all, you know that every so often it “times out” and if you try to refresh it, it goes back to the main page. Well I-Hacked Member Ryduh has come up with a excellent hack to get around this. You can read all about it on his site.
156 Responses to “Hacking Paid For Surf Sites :: Using Firefox!”
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February 22nd, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Has anyone actually gotten paid through this service yet?
I want to know if it is really legit.
February 23rd, 2005 at 11:14 am
Linux/Mozilla
Seems to hang a lot, gets stuck from time to time with a message similar to “waiting for page to reload…”, sometimes kicks over after a few minutes, sometimes not. Went to bed last night w/ it running, only to find it had gotten stuck a few minutes after going to bed! I then tried to use ReloadEvery extension w/ Mozilla, but this doesn’t work. There appears to be some sort of synchronization mechanism that gets “out of sync” when the page is reloaded in this fashion (probably a sequence # or something is used), which then returns to the login screen (the initial startup page is still there as well). IOW, I’ve yet to find a dependable automated reloading mechanism for this website, which pretty much makes it a waste. Btw, I can’t even get the ad browser to open in a new tab, any such attempt simply returns the new page to the earn money page.
So all in all, the suggestions others have made about how to optimize surfjunky haven’t been working all that well for me. About the only tip that has worked is disabling the Script/Plug-ins “move or resize existing windows” and “raise or lower windows” to avoid the annoyance of the ads dominating the screen.
February 23rd, 2005 at 12:03 pm
I just noticed that one of the ads timed out, so like I had been doing, I refreshed the page. Come to find out, they have banned the use of Firefox completely due to abuse (go figure). So, if we’re going to take advantage of this program, we’re going to have to figure out an alternate method of staying connected to this site with another browser while making it non-obtrusive. It did mention that Opera was an acceptable browser. Anyone have any ideas? I’d love to make a few extra bucks.
February 23rd, 2005 at 12:11 pm
As I expected, they’ve caught on to the Firefox thing already..
“Sorry, we cannot allow the use of this browser type.
The use of Firefox and CrazyBrowser no longer allowed.
To protect our members and our program we have disabled the use of the Firefox and CrazyBrowser from the Surf Junky browser. This is due to the amount of cheating which originates from these browser types.
We recommend using the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera or Safari with Surf Junky which will enable you to earn the highest amount with our program with the least amount of browsing problems.
We thank you for your understanding. Please feel free to contact us with your comments, questions, or concerns.”
Quick fix for now is to change the browser agent string to be identical to whatever IE throws (or just something other than the firefox default, most likely). Google is your friend…
February 23rd, 2005 at 12:59 pm
You can get an extension that will change your user agent string to IE’s with an icon on your toolbar. Go to:
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/download/
-mike
February 23rd, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Mike.. Great solution.. I will play with this today!
February 23rd, 2005 at 2:17 pm
Anyone else notice that the Braingle ad stops the autorotate feature? Best I can tell, it’s not being published w/ the autorotate frame header. So if you get this specific ad, you’re stopped until you manually restart.
Lots of quirks/bugs/problems w/ this SurfJunky website so far, I guess it’s to be expected, fairly new as I understand it. I think they need more bandwidth too, I’m timing out quite frequently (doesn’t matter the operation, can’t login/logout, get stats, etc., not just ads).
February 23rd, 2005 at 2:35 pm
I don’t think it is timing out on braingle I think it is there way of stopping people like us.. because it wasn’t doing it last night or before.. it is something new and started right after they outlawed firefox… I just think it is so someone can’t keep it running while away from computer…
February 23rd, 2005 at 2:41 pm
what if there was a prog that would load a specified address into an opened browser every one or two hours.. there has to be somthing like that out there it would solve any time out problem…if anyone knows anything like that let me know.. going to do a google search right now.. times like this I wish I was a programer
February 23rd, 2005 at 3:08 pm
I’m just about ready to give up on this app, that Braingle ad is a problem. I’m not doing anything special, not trying to abuse the system w/ tabbed windows, “reload every” page updates, no user agent changes, etc., I’m simply running Mozilla on Linux, single window. Assuming I don’t get a timeout (yet another problem), eventually I hit that Braingle ad, and then I’m dead. The URL shows as http://www.braingle.com/index/php, NOT the expected http://www.surfjunky.com/members/surfjunky.php. It can’t be just a general problem, it ONLY happens w/ the Braingle ad.
February 23rd, 2005 at 3:37 pm
I am working on a program that creates an Internet Explorer HTML view and minimizes into a tiny bar on the side of your screen. It will refresh every 5 minutes or so in case it crashes, and it will pass the Internet Explorer test. Also, it will not allow the status of the window to be changed so it won’t disturb the user.
Hopefully this will adress every problem.
When it’s done I will have a downloadable version on Arem.us.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:05 pm
I have finished the program. Go to Arem.us and click on software and you will be directed to the download page. Enjoy! If you find any bugs PLEASE tell me.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:10 pm
About the braingle ad problem, try using FireFox’s adblocker and add “http://*.braingle.*/*” to the block list.
Also, to be able to use FireFox, write “about:config” in the adress bar and add a new chain value called “general.useragent.override” with “IE” as the value. Works for me.
Oh, their server sucks. real bad.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Unable to login and it seems to refresh too often (like each 15 seconds). But it’s a cool idea though !
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:18 pm
I have a thought that MAY or MAY NOT work. Set your homepage as http://www.surfjunky.com/members/surfjunky.php and have a script or something “go home” every 20 mins or so.. I will be testing something like this later tonight.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:24 pm
I made a test version to make sure my refresh code worked and had it refresh every 25 seconds.
It now only refreshes every 5 minutes. About the login problem, could you be more specific?
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:24 pm
Seems my IP is getting blocked. When I “use” another and try to login it says something about my session being timed out, and prompts me to login. When I do it just repeats the same.
Now what?
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:29 pm
If you refer to the i-hacked.com forums, you will find that I am currently running tests on other ways to avoid timing out the browser (ran 4 hours today without timing out).
I’ll update more as the results come in, but I found that if you simply run an online game, it will make the browser think that you are actually surfing.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:30 pm
What if we did this..
Write a LOCAL HTML file, which autorefreshed a bottom frame to:www.surfjunky.com/members/surfjunky.php
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Alright, it was the surfjunky server that was down. My bad, sorry about that.
But now, when I login, I get to the members screen, but if you click “Click here to start the surf junky browser”, it opens in another window (a IE window).
I tried login with IE first, then opening your program but it doesn’t work.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:32 pm
(forgot to add: Never ran into this Briangle ad problem while running my game, so it seems to work flawlessly)
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Yes. I need to get an account before working on this. If someone wants to email me their username and password I’ll try it. I won’t screw anything on your account up.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:37 pm
Can anyone get the URL for the Braingle ad? Its just breaking out of the frames. I dont think SurfJunky means this to happen.
also exsanguis- Theres no way I know of for a webserver to check the activity of your internet connection.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:37 pm
Arem- why not just sign up?
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:42 pm
I am trying the toolbar extension for Firefox mentioned by “mike in Austin” towards the top of the page. I have also went into my Account Options on Surfjunky and unclicked “entertainment & games” since this is what Braingle is, in the area where it asks you what type of ads you want to see. Surfjunky still stopped it though, although I have no idea what page stopped it. It just went back to a “Get paid to blah blah” Surfjunky page and stopped.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:43 pm
The Braingle URL is:
http://www.braingle.com/index.php
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:45 pm
There’s no reason for the “surf junky browser” to stop displaying ads.. As ryduh said, there’s no way they can detect your computer activity. They would need some kind of software to do that, like GetPaid4 did.
Isn’t is the server going to get hammered real bad when there will be more users ? I mean.. this is a stupid idea. Let’s say there are a million users that send requests at the same time, that’s 30000000000 concurrent requests. Crazy, no ?
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:49 pm
in about:config change browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to true
this has been working for me let me know how it works for you guys
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:59 pm
Nevermind. It doesnt work.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:01 pm
Anyone who gets this running for a couple of hours or more, please post your set-up. My IP appears to have been blacklisted and my account seems locked. I have to make sure I get it right on the next account I open.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:01 pm
I think we should wait until they “fix” their server (probably a P2-333 with 64mb of PC100…)
before going crazy with all those assumptions.
Most of the errors are due to the server not responding, being flaked to death by too much requests.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:04 pm
Most of the errors are due to the server not responding, being flaked to death by too much requests.
Agreed. But they are up to something.
Those Bastards
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:06 pm
“I think we should wait until they “fix†their server (probably a P2-333 with 64mb of PC100…)
before going crazy with all those assumptions.”
Well.. I don’t know if you guys saw.. But when it went down it disclosed the directory info.. This website is running on a SHARED HOST.. They are probably getting screamed at by the owners of the hosting site. They will be on thier own dedicated server before long..
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:15 pm
Something’s fucked up. I get 50ms pings when I query surfjunky.com
Wtf ? Why isn’t is it responding then ?
And what about a trace route ? Every connection has under 50ms…
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:18 pm
http://whois.webhosting.info/67.15.5.90
Looks like they have made it to their own server now…
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Currently, the site doesn’t work at all for me.
Even though I get 50ms ping answers from the server.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:25 pm
The site is also currently not working for me.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:26 pm
New server ?
(jeez I’ll finally get to make money).
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:28 pm
Give them some time to set it up, they just got it a couple of minutes ago. Geesh, no patience
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:32 pm
ain’t got no time to waste for free bills, brother !
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:33 pm
Server is up over @ http://www.theprimonetwork.com !
If you are the domain owner:
Log in to the Site Administrator interface to start managing this site (you might want to bookmark this link).
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:38 pm
Anyone else getting a timeout on theprimonetwork
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:39 pm
yep, a timeout.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:40 pm
Me. Alright I’m giving up for tonight.
At least for a couple of hours
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:40 pm
same here
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:41 pm
How much money you all made via this site so far?
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:43 pm
$1.05
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:43 pm
About $2.50
The dreaded timeouts have prevented me from making more
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:44 pm
somewhere around $3.00. timeouts and bumps back to surfjunky have killed me too.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:44 pm
my money stash better still be the same! cause if not theres gonna be hell to pay. i had $7 and 35 refferals
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:44 pm
about 4.50
before they started fucking around
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:45 pm
Somone should make an irc chat, so we can discuss hacks betterly.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:49 pm
efnet- #surfhack
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:50 pm
I’ve only got 1.50… mainly because of time outs and such
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:52 pm
I’ve got about 2.50 but I havent been doing too much with it
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:53 pm
server: efnet.port80.se
room: #surhack
come join!
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:57 pm
its #surfhack heh
February 23rd, 2005 at 6:01 pm
Server is up. and fast.
February 23rd, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Excellent
Hopefully we won’t have to deal with timeout attacks anymore
February 23rd, 2005 at 6:37 pm
I use avant browser, it has a built in autorefresher and tabbed browing. Its IE based though, so if you can get it to disable the java script that focuses on the page ever 30 seconds, that would be an easy solution.
February 23rd, 2005 at 7:53 pm
the new room is #surf-hack on EFnet
February 23rd, 2005 at 8:15 pm
Sorry about the problems earlier. Go to Arem.us to get the new version of butane! It works great!
February 23rd, 2005 at 8:27 pm
The site goes down so much…… I hope their new server fixes it. To get a browser made especially for this go to arem.us! It should solve all your problems- IE shell, autorefresh, doesnt pop up. If you get popki popup closer it will close any popups that come up too!
February 23rd, 2005 at 9:23 pm
love the site
February 24th, 2005 at 5:58 am
Well I edited a firefox file so it will now try to reload the page if you get a timeout. This is useful when SurfJunky has the timeouts and the dialog boxes keep popping up. http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~ryross
click that link for the article.
February 24th, 2005 at 8:18 am
I used your hack ryduh. I set it up before work. I’ll let you know how it turns out, but it seemed to be working before I left.
February 24th, 2005 at 9:14 am
Hey ryduh,
I have a mac, and my machine doesn’t have a toolkit.jar. Any ideas?
February 24th, 2005 at 9:35 am
How many activity points does everyone have, and how did you get them?
February 24th, 2005 at 10:07 am
Every so often the ad page will sit with 1-second to go, and never rotate… unless I do something manually.
Is there a work-around for this?
February 24th, 2005 at 10:19 am
Ryduh, your fix is working great. I am pretty sure its been running for about 4 hours straight. Nice work!!!!!!!!!
February 24th, 2005 at 10:25 am
How long did you wait? Most of the time when this happens to me, it does eventually kick over, esp. when using Mozilla (which has a longer timeout than IE). As a precaution, I installed the ReloadEvery extension ( http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/ ) and configured it to reload the page every 45 secs, so if it doesn’t kick over, at least it retries. IE is problematic since it’s not flexible in this regard. Use of Firefox or Mozilla is preferred. You should check out the discussions @ http://chat.efnet.info/ (under Advanced, choose #Surf-Hack channel), conversation has been going on since last night, lots of tips.
February 24th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
The browser was unable to connect to the specified site, even though it exists. This may be because the site does not accept connections from your computer, the service may be down, or the site does not support the service or port that you tried to connect to.
how do I stop that error message?
February 24th, 2005 at 2:24 pm
Hi everyone,
I’ve written a wrapper for surfjunky that does 3 things:
1. Refreshes the surfjunky page before it times out, preventing the annoying “page cannot be found” error
2. It reloads the ad page with a blank one as soon as it loads, saving you bandwidth
3. It displays your statistics, updated every refresh!
You can download it here:
http://members.cox.net/jkatz/surfjunky/surfjunkywrapper2.zip
February 24th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
ryduh’s hack, combined with all the other ones before it (agent switcher, reload every, firefox java settings, min to tray) seems to work quite nicely.
February 24th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
splatz thanks for your wrapper ! 100%
February 24th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
Another thank you to splatz for the wrapper.
Do you think that you can make this wrapper show the ads?
If everyone was using this wrapper, surfjunky would not make any cash at all and then this would all come to an end.
February 24th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
I haven’t seen my total hours surfing increase at all yet. It’s stuck at 0.00 hours. I was wondering what may be the cause of this. Possibly because I’m on a college campus behind my own wireless router in my room? Any help would be appreciated. I am using firefox with ryduh’s hack, combined agent switcher, reload every, and firefox java settings.
February 24th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
Check out main page of http://www.i-hacked.com
February 24th, 2005 at 5:36 pm
I made a new version of my browser. It does return some scripting errors (yes IE SUCKS!) but I found that if I go to my options and disable the categories that contain the ads that have the script errors its not a problem. Also you can go to microsoft’s site and download the newest scripting engine for IE. And be sure to send them a nasty email while your’e there. If you want the browser go to arem.us.
February 24th, 2005 at 5:45 pm
splatz: awesome wrapper. however im worried about the life of surf junky. people like us are going to shut the place down.
February 24th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
Find this on splatz’s html page:
and change it to:
And that way we are not putting too much stress on the surfjunky server.
February 24th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
woops: i fixed my post
Find
“http://www.surfjunky.com/members/stats.php” and change it to: “about:blank”
And that way we are not putting too much stress on the surfjunky server.
February 24th, 2005 at 5:52 pm
I’m still having problems with my total hours surfing being updated: still at 0.00. I’m using splat’s wrapper, with ryduh’s hack, combined agent switcher, reload every, and firefox java settings.
February 24th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
if anyone could help me out on AIM, my screenname is patcasanta. thanks.
February 24th, 2005 at 9:52 pm
i’m not sure that surfjunky will be able to stay open with these hacks.
February 24th, 2005 at 10:58 pm
I have been following the posts here, and I am starting to agree w/ redx5k & others. Anyone w/ ideas to automate the link clicking in the adverts; therefore raising individual activity points and keeping surfjunky in business?
February 25th, 2005 at 12:15 am
I started feeling guilty about the ad sniping… commented out the sniping code, so at least the ads display in a small section of the frameset. I also replaced the stats link with about:mozilla just to have something to look at instead of a blank page.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:14 am
I downloaded the link on ryduh site of toolkit.zip. There is no toolkit.jar file in that zip. There are a million other files but no toolkit.jar. Anyone can help me out?
February 25th, 2005 at 9:22 am
ok i just put all the files from the toolkit.zip into every folder in program files/mozilla firefox that had the work content and now my mozilla works, but the loop timeout still doesnt work.
February 25th, 2005 at 10:53 am
My good friends @ http://www.genmay.com have been working on this. And have hacked the wrapper so that ads are shown for a split second. And you have something to look at
It also does not refresh the stat’s page every 30 seconds.
Download here:
http://s89621933.onlinehome.us/img/Files/SurfJunky%20Wrapper%20v2.1.zip
February 25th, 2005 at 11:21 am
wait a sec… won’t the wrapper that refreshes surfjunky.php after 25 seconds make them think you have multiple windows open? i was using reload every 5 minutes and it came up with a warning to that effect and a threat of nonpayment.
February 25th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Question: I have tried the wrapper, but I can’t seem to get it to work. I enter by username and password, login, but when the page reloads it doesn’t go to the ads. It says “Your session has timed out. Please login again.” What am I doing wrong?
February 25th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
Never mind, v.3 final seems to fix this problem.
February 25th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Something smells bad with surfjunky.
I noticed that the sites for http://www.directgalleries.com and http://www.autosurfclub.com use the exact same terms of service and php code for their signups.
Maybe this is all a big datamining operation?
BTW, they are on to us using the auto reload. I’m already getting warnings for using more than one instance that I wasn’t getting yesterday.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
Has anyone been getting this:
You may not use more than one instance of the Surf Junky browser.
Please be sure that only one Surf Junky browser is open at a time.
Our system has detected that you may be using more than one instance of the Surf Junky browser. If you are, please close this window and continue surfing normally in the first window you had open.
If you are not using more than one instance of the Surf Junky browser but you have still received this message here are some things that may prevent it from happening again:
1. Wait 30 seconds before opening the browser after closing one off.
2. Do not click refresh on the browser. To open another use the members link.
3. Do not use auto-refreshing programs or any extra browser plug-ins.
Please be aware that using more than one instance of the Surf Junky browser is against our terms of service. We understand that accidents do happen so we have put one warning on your account. If we receive excessive warnings your payments may be withheld.
Does anyone know a fix?
February 25th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
redx is right – I have been getting that once I reload my browser via ReloadEvery or even if I reaload it manually.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
Ya’ll, need to use wrapper 3.4, SJ has updated their server to prevent auto-refreshes, at least within certain parameters (e.g., under 30 secs). Wrapper 3.4 auto-reloads only AFTER 30 secs (varies 30-40), circumvents this problem.
Btw, using auto-reload is problematic, the 3.4 wrapper resets its reload countdown once the page is refreshed, while reload every doesn’t, it reloads unconditionally, it just ticks off X number of seconds, then reloads. That means it’s possible a newly refreshed page could be reloaded BEFORE 30 secs, that’s when SJ barfs, and reports the “You may not use more than one instance of the Surf Junky browser” msg.
Only downside so far is, wrapper 3.4 significantly diminished earnings, I’m getting a measly 27 cents per hour. But considering that the SJ site hangs a LOT, NOT using the wrapper means reloading manually, which will cost you $$$ as well. So for now, it’s the best we have.
eibgrad
February 25th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
where did you get the 3.4 wrapper?
February 25th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
3.4 wrapper available here:
http://surfjunkywrapper.cjb.net
February 25th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
yeah that’s what i meant.
about the datamining theory:
if you go to http://whois.webhosting.info you can see some interesting things
http://whois.webhosting.info/67.15.5.90
http://whois.webhosting.info/67.15.72.51
http://whois.webhosting.info/207.44.238.9
February 25th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
you know you can use avant for all this
ive been doing so for the past few days at least
and umm..DONT YOU THINK THEY ARE READING THIS??
yeah its kinda public and like one of the first “google” pages.
Just wanted to bring up that point
February 25th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
Anything accessible by us is accessible by them, no way around it. If determined enough, doesn’t take a genious to track down ANY mode of discussion, form, IRC chat, whatever, where this info is available. You’re kidding yourself to believe otherwise. That’s why I don’t care/worry.
February 25th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
My page eventually freezes in a manner is there a program someone has or could make to make it refresh the selected page every 5 minutes or so. assistance would be highly appreciated.
February 26th, 2005 at 5:39 am
Here’s another site looks similar, 40 cents an hour, plus emails that pay, and apparently you can get extra money by having people click on email links!
Best part is there doesn’t seem to be any congestion… yet….
http://www.xsurfing.com/?r=sheeno
)
(referral included, you know the drill
February 26th, 2005 at 8:38 am
Why you guys need hacks to use SurfJunky. I don’t understant. You juste need to leave the browser open while you don’t use your computer. Right??? I am missing something here?
February 26th, 2005 at 10:09 am
The hacks came about, at least as far as I am concerned, because of mis-behaved ads and the surfjunky site timing out.
I for one had no problem just leaving the site open and letting it go showing ads while I was going about my business–until the surfjunky site started timing out and I was getting timeouts.
February 26th, 2005 at 10:58 am
Paid to Surf
It’s about time a paid to surf ‘type’ site was re-created. Surf Junky pays you just for looking at some rotated ads.
Sign up today and start getting paid to surf using our Surf Junky browser. You can get up to $.75 per hour with regular activity an…
February 26th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
If SJ didn’t timeout so much, yeah, you wouldn’t need the hacks. But that’s the problem, darn site will hang on auto-rotation all the time, sometimes within muinutes of starting. Or even shutdown completely several times a day. Unless you want to babysit the thing all day, the only reasonable solution is a hack that automatically refreshes whenever the auto-rotation hangs, or restarts the process whenever SJ goes down completely. Again, if SJ didn’t have these problems, we wouldn’t need the hacks. Right now, we do.
February 26th, 2005 at 2:15 pm
has anyone actually been paid yet?
i know they pay on the 15th, but has anyone actually been paid?
February 26th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
oh yeah also i got it working for quite a while with firefox and the agent switcher along with…other methods
but eventually their site just times out so badly that i cant even get it to remotely load up a site.
msn me:
arghyougrrrs@hotmail.com
February 26th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
they say they’re getting a couple more servers so it should be more reliable soon and we won’t need these thingsto fix their bugs.
February 26th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
I’m using the wrapper version 3.4 and it seems to be working. However, it only seems to give me credit for about 1/2 the hours I am running it. Any ideas as to whats up?
February 27th, 2005 at 1:03 am
hey splat, i know this is kinda worthless but do you want someone to design your page. i can do it if you want me to.
February 27th, 2005 at 4:50 pm
wow ive been running the wrapper for over 5 full days now and i find out the site is a scam, just go & read this site http://forums.g4tv.com/messageview.cfm?catid=59&threadid=354826&STARTPAGE=1 the post is near the bototm
February 28th, 2005 at 12:40 am
why would they update their site to prevent wrappers if this was a scam? why would they care?
February 28th, 2005 at 3:26 am
yes and they upgrade there servers and are working to fix the bugs… Obviously, if it was a scam, let people hack away, it would be more money for them.
February 28th, 2005 at 10:00 am
Seems like they aren’t giving me the amount of money I should have.
February 28th, 2005 at 10:24 am
is it working for anyone today? for me it says that my login information is wrong, whats up?
February 28th, 2005 at 11:42 am
it’s working for me, it did go down for a little bit though.
February 28th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
i think they terminated my account
February 28th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
mine as well. looks like they took out my referral’s accounts too. bastards.
February 28th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
yep, verified–they took out my account (which was up to 20+ bucks as of Friday) as well as the two referrals I had (one had $15, the other ~$8). I created a new account and was able to log in just fine.
February 28th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
^ yep i just made a new one, and im not quitting with the hacks on it. i had $35 too.
February 28th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
im not getting nearly as much money as i should
seems like its only counting when my computer isnt idle.
Is this an XP problem?
March 1st, 2005 at 4:15 pm
Decided to try my luck with the ‘lost password’ option…
Result?
My account (using Firefox, ADBlock, the wrapper, and the User Agent Switcher):
“Your account has been suspended
Reason: Consistently using more than one Surf Junky Browser.
Please read our terms of service for more information.
This decision cannot be appealed.”
New account I created after the original one was suspended. This account was suspended the FIRST time I logged in using Firefox with just the User Agent Switcher enabled:
“Your account has been suspended
Reason: Using an automated refreshing program.
Please read our terms of service for more information.
This decision cannot be appealed.”
March 3rd, 2005 at 12:43 pm
There is a great program “Auto URL Refresher 1.0″ that can refresh the browser. The program lets you enter the time intervals between refreshes. I’ve used the demo version but it only allows 30 mins at a time. The full version is 9 bucks, and I don’t want to pay it (unless SJ would pay me already). I tried hacking the program to disable the timer, but no such luck. Anyone else want to have a go at it?
http://www.autourlrefresher.com
March 4th, 2005 at 6:41 am
The Surf Junky Browser is currently offline as we run a security check.
Please check back in 5 minutes to start earning money again!
Dont use autorefreshers anymore!
March 4th, 2005 at 8:17 am
what about http://www.ezinfo……something.com the ad site keeps popping up this error, and you have to hit ok for surfjunky to run again. is there away to stop the error popup?
March 5th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
I think I have a solution. This is just a temp fix until someone with more skilz than I can smooth things out. Also, this works best while you are *not* using your computer. ie, if you have a spare pc lying around, this would be a fine use for it.
I am using a program called ‘AutoIt’ (http://www.autoitscript.com). It’s a scripting prog that will let you automatically click the “error” message that comes up. I’m not sure what that mesg is, but I suspect it is something they have incorporated to see if there is someone awake on the other end of the line. Anyway, I’m brand-gnu to this program, but have figured out how to make a repeating script that will move the mouse cursor to a pre-determined location on the screen and click. I have it on about a 5 minute delay. Will see how that works.
/hoping the smart ppl follow up with an improvement soon!
March 6th, 2005 at 1:23 am
Well the error message isnt a dialog box, its just a page they redirect you to every few hours. So what you’ll need it to do is when the security check appears, have the computer delay 10-15 min (to be safe) and then reload the surfjunky.php page. They are trying to stop programs that refresh surfjunky.php during the 5 minute security check or that refresh the “do not refresh” page.
BTW is it just me or have the timeouts reduced immensly. I dont think I even got one today
March 6th, 2005 at 5:21 am
to stop the timeout error type about:config in your address bar next find browser.turbo.enabled and set to true
March 6th, 2005 at 7:32 am
My error mesg was a box, not a page. I still got one time-out error yesterday, tho. But I definately get an error mesg box that I have to click thru about once every five minutes.
March 6th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
I’m using this surfjunky and I just made 24 hours but I used more than it,so I’m sure SurfJunky is cheating as I didn’t see any stupid timer like theirs. 24:00 -24:99 here 100 isn’t same as 60 minutes so it’s cheating of the site owners,did anyone get paid from this site and I’m afraid if they are swindlers as I hate to see their site opens when I do my personal work on PC.
March 6th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
@breckbone
I had that softare after u gave this valuable info but how can I write this script? ıt’ll be great if u can be more specific for the guys like me that doesn’t know programming. Thanks
March 6th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
I figured out a solution for pages that popup an error dialog box or a message popup. You need to add the page to your HOSTS file. it’s in (for WinXP) C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Open the HOSTS (hosts) file with Notepad. Then at the end of the file add:
127.0.0.1 http://www.ezinfocenter.com
http://www.ezinfocenter.com was one of the sites giving me a error popup (message box). It works for me so far, what happens then is you can no longer access that site.
March 6th, 2005 at 11:30 pm
So I’m no longer getting the dialog box. Is anyone else? At least today all I’m getting are hung ads. Auto refresh seems to bring up the “multiple browsers” warning mesg. I did the about:config mod w/the turbo and set it to true. Nothing new. Is anyone having any consistant degree of success? If so, what are your settings?
Tupac, if you’re still having that dialog box popup, lemme know and I’ll post the script.
March 8th, 2005 at 1:08 am
when I use mozilla or IE the page automatically opens in every 30 seconds and so I can’t do my job,and when I check the timer it seems very slow 1 hour isn’t same with their counter and it’s just cheating of them ,I just see Free Screen Savers Pop Up especially and sometimes when I use Opera I see that there are problems when connecting to host so I disabled viewing images to make the page load faster.
March 8th, 2005 at 8:46 am
Check the original post here:http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/120/42/
It shows three firefox (mozilla) plugins (UserAgent Switcher; ReloadEvery; Minimizetotray extention) that will do what you need. I just have my SJ screen running in the background. It won’t pop up if you follow their instructions. I would recommend that you don’t have the auto-refresh turned on to refresh very frequently, tho. You could get suspended if they catch on to that. I had my first full night of SJ browsing successfully completed last night by having the page reload every 30 minutes. I was away from the pc for 9hrs and got 6 hrs of SJ in. Not bad. I may shorten the refresh rate to 25 or 20 mins…not sure yet. Just be sure that, when your page is in the background while you surf other sites, you check on it periodically because it will stop from time to time. Oh, one more thing, it seems to stop less often when I’m surfing other sites or playing online games like Battlefield 1942. Dunno if it’s a coincidence or not, but i would suggest turning off the auto refresh while you’re on your pc. If it refreshes during a countdown sequence, you get their nasty warning mesg and a flag on your account.
March 12th, 2005 at 12:30 am
SJ is a scam. Total crap. Took my internet time here: http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=breckbone
Made $56 just today and I just signed up. Psyched after seeing an actual image of someone’s check. Totally legit.
March 12th, 2005 at 12:37 am
Just got deleted from SJ for nothing!! What a waste, I was up to $55 and now I got deleted. I tried to loggin and it said my account doesnt exist
March 12th, 2005 at 6:13 am
It would be a good idea to ban all SJ and other paid2surf sites IPs from here otherwise they’ll adapt and all these useful hacks will be useless (many already are).
March 12th, 2005 at 6:37 am
Has anyone actualy seen any payments in their paypal accounts from the above mentioned sites? Please confirm cus a lot of them seem to be a scam.
March 13th, 2005 at 11:43 am
I havnt been banned yet because im not using any of the hacks at all.
I took my time elsewhere too. THis site also pays, and its probably a good thing that the income stream is a bit slower.
http://www.studiotraffic.com/index.php?refid=107051
March 16th, 2005 at 9:45 am
If I understood correctly you only get 10 cents a day – $3 a month with studiotraffic.com
March 16th, 2005 at 8:01 pm
this is another site of the same sort
only its 4%
http://4daily.com/?ref=43748
April 1st, 2005 at 7:22 am
It looks like my SJ account just got deleted too for no apparent reason. I asked previously if anyone actualy saw any payments from SJ. Unless I get an affirmative answer I’ll consider SJ and this thread a total WASTE OF TIME.
June 15th, 2005 at 8:51 am
I personally do not trust SurfJunky, I believe it to be a scam. However, there are a few honest sites out there such as:
PaidSurfing.net http://www.paidsurfing.net/?ref=3495 This site works. It is like STUDIO TRAFFIC http://www.studiotraffic.com/index.php?refid=347676 (the defacto, paying 1% Daily for surfing 100 sites; that is with $100 you get $1 / day = $30 month) except it pays 2% Daily(same $100 = $2 / day = $60 / month. It pays to compound your earnings. The webmaster is well known in the Paid2Surf Community. Give it a try, you get 100% Money Back Guarantee. There is a forum, whereby ppl get to post comments, etc, so check it out.
September 29th, 2005 at 7:14 pm
just to tell everyone, SURF JUNKY IS A SCAM SITE..
their statistics are wrong and they lose money when you surf if this is real..
(i dont remember the actual statistics)
example: you get paid 1$/hour
there are 60 refreshes per hour
they say that if you wanna advertise with them, you pay 50 cents per 60 refreshes
that means they’re losing 50 cents per hour per surfer
it says how much they charge advertisers right on their site!
don’t fall for this scam
September 30th, 2005 at 12:12 am
if you want a good site that actually pays…
http://www.studiotraffic.com/index.php?refid=1212779&username=xwildxmonkeyx
October 22nd, 2005 at 8:29 pm
I tried Surfjunkey.com a while ago. They don’t pay. Once you get to the $75.00 and request a payout, your account will be suspended.
It’s a crock of sh___t and a waste of time.
April 26th, 2006 at 7:39 am
Treasuretrooper is the best for me so far!
http://www.treasuretrooper.com/68774
go now it actually pays, if anyone finds a way to cheat it let me know plz
May 26th, 2006 at 12:22 am
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July 4th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
Hai,
I’ve jsut now joined SurfJunky..I just wanted to know if they r a genuine one n they pay regularly..Iam in a very bad financial situation n i want to earn for my food..So plz reply me..
Thankx in Adv.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:18 am
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August 30th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
well, after 2 months of running surf junky on a spare pc i earned over 200$ but have not been paid
my total electric cost was something like 5$ and IMO well worth it for the knowledge that this program IS A SCAM.
i never recieved payment and at 200$ was well over the payout minimum
my account never got closed though
perhapps if yours did then the scammer caught on to you
i don’t feel bad for being out 5$ though as i was trying to scam them and got scammed in the process.
oddly enough the ad’s never even showed up.
the banner was there and would refresh every 30 seconds but the page below was always white, nothing ever showed up.
i suppose this should have been a warning to me that the site was a scam…
live and learn i guess
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