SurveyRewards.me: Get paid pennies for your privacy – San Diego Union-Tribune
SurveyRewards.me: Get paid pennies for your privacy – San Diego Union-Tribune
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Publish Date: 2026-05-04 10:00:00
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Market research companies often pay consumers small amounts to take surveys and provide their opinions about different products. But some sites that reward you for taking these surveys are better than others. SurveyRewards.me is one of the worst that we’ve reviewed to date.
What is SurveyRewards.me?
SurveyRewards promises to pay you points to take surveys. The accumulated points can be redeemed for gift cards.
How it works
You sign up by providing an email address, date of birth, your gender and ZIP code. That supposedly gives you access to paid surveys.
However, to take a survey, you’ll need to provide more information. And that can include information about your device, interests, lifestyle, demographics and “sensitive information,” which may include your sexual preferences, politics and income.
SurveyRewards.me review
If you’re signing up here hoping to make decent money, you’re likely to be disappointed.
When we reviewed the site, surveys paid between 15 cents and 47 cents each. However, the surveys paying more — i.e., 50 cents — required that you provide access to the cookies on your computer, device identification, information on your interests, demographics and “sensitive data.” And they also required 10 to 15 minutes of your time.
Other market research firms often assure users that this data will only be used by the sites’ clients. It won’t be spread around widely. SurveyRewards gives no such assurances.
Risks
Indeed, the site says it can share your data with its partners, which may be in the U.S. or may be anywhere in the world. And the companies that SurveyRewards shares your data with may or may not be subject to the same rules and regulations of your home country.
Once you have agreed to its terms, there’s really no way to limit what’s done with your data. However, agreeing to release your data is required to even try to take a paid survey. In other words, when you give this permission, you don’t know whether…
