Google pays users for access to internet – update

Google launched a project in which the users will pay for access to their internet usage. People who want to join will receive $ 25 per year in vouchers. Google can then, under the browsing history.

With the project, that Screenwise is called, claims to Google are services want to improve, to gain insight into how users are surfing. The internetgigant wants access to the browsgeschiedenis of the user, and will also look at how a website is used.

Those interested must be an add-on for the browser, that Google allows you to ‘take a look’. This seems to be only for Chrome to be available. After registration, the user gets $ 5 in Amazon e-vouchers gift, every three months, $ 5 is added. Compensation in something other than Amazon vouchers seems not to be possible.

Users can be on the Screenwise site sign up. Currently, Google has the registration, however, turned off, because the to own to say the interest not able to. Thereby missing most of the details on the project yet. It is unclear if the registrations be open.

Google is already under fire because it is in the provision of its services to little regard for the privacy of its users would have. Recently came the internetgigant even with a new privacy policy, which is the company to criticism.

Update 15:04 pm: Google has a response to let you know that it is a small-scale project, by which users gain insight about what information of them is collected. In addition, it promises to be the internetgigant that users at any moment their participation in the project stop.