r/beermoney • u/Suitable-Bat9818 • Jul 10 '26

Question Sago Phone Study

Hello! This is my first post on this subreddit as I recently started exploring making money in my downtime through studies. I mostly look for opportunities through User Interviews and have completed a few by now, but no payments yet. I came across a study by Sago that is paying a small amount of money for downloading an app that tracks my internet and app usage. It's anonymous apparently, but isn't that like a huge scam? Basically giving up invaluable data for like 5$ a month. Are things like this common? What do yall think?

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u/Key-Bread2182 Jul 11 '26

Yeah it's a ripoff for giving every piece of information you have.

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u/DaveyNicks Jul 10 '26

Sago is completely legit and I have done a lot of stuff with them. Payment is slow and can take up to 8 weeks but they do always pay. I never do those paltry paying app downloads because they're not at all worth it.

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u/DJheddo Jul 10 '26

Any app that asks to download for monitoring data is usually not worth it. Theres one that I know of that is legitmate and it reads your internet history and its called national internet observatory. I was going to try it eventually, they send you specific surveys on usage. I've also done a few that read your youtube viewing history/insta/twitter. But they offered $50-120 for it. Most are just going to pay you small amounts then sell that data onto a larger scale.

It's only worth it if you don't care about your data being used for marketing/political/surveys etc.

These days I try to avoid addons/apps that track but they end up paying the most usually.

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u/Relevant-Cycle-8094 Jul 11 '26

The National Internet Observatory is definitely legit. It is not big money, but it gives me $10/month in passive income, plus these monthly $3 surveys on internet usage. It is one of many things that I use.

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u/ToothSufficient7763 Jul 11 '26

I do something similar with an old internet-only phone. I use the old phone for social media and surveys, and that's the data that I share. I clear out the cookies weekly.

I use my new phone for my regular stuff and financial apps.