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In the beginning, none of this was true. Faucets gave out coins with NO advertisements at all -- just an address spot and a claim. In fact, they didn't even have captchas. The whole point was to help Bitcoin take off the ground. Note that back then, they also gave out 0.25+ BTC per claim as well (but they had little value so people bitched about how they were worthless).

After a while, some people released theirs with captchas to "fight bots," and that became the adopted standard. This I don't fault them for.

Then came a couple ads, usually related to a-ads, as a way to "pay for hosting." They weren't annoying, though, and were just like any other site.

Then came late 2013, with the ATH. All of a sudden a flood of people come in that are trying to "get rich" off Bitcoin, and think faucets are the way to do it. It was this that spawned the whole "let's spam popups and ads and hope people accidentally click them so we can get a couple cents!" scenario we still face today.

Hahaha thats an old marketing tactic, they also use to put exit popups on their websites like "Why do you want to leave empty handed", sometimes its a double popup or triple one.

There are all sorts of shady marketing tactics, but most of them are inefficient and only annoy people

Faucets are to help newbies try out bitcoin, i think they should pay out usually more, but yes the greedyness prevails.

So its our job as list providers or rotator providers to punish shady faucets by not listing them.

If they lose credibility and traffic, then they might come clean and realize that too much greedyness eventually will make you earn less money.

It has to be a balance between users and website owners.

I think people are misunderstanding what faucets are for. We see many posts a day now from newbies asking how they can get rich hosting a faucet. The ones that make $10k+ a month aren't doing it from the faucet -- they use the faucet to drive traffic to their main site. This greed from people trying to cash in on faucets is what's killing it, though. It's largely why I haven't really kept up with my rotator -- scam faucets are popping up daily, and many people start them hoping to get rich and then ditch them when they realize it's not going to happen.

Yes and not just that, but also they start to hide the button, or simply dont have it.

http://p-free.info/

They are the shadies of them all, they make you wait 30 seconds, and also put the button in a very hidden place at the bottom.

But i saw faucets that didnt had buttons at all, and you couldnt claim wit the enter, they are just pure clickbait, and no reward.

But i`m still in maintenance, i think i have to cut my list down to TOP 15, it seems to me that the faucet industry is shrinking, and the quality faucets are less and less.

Dude, huge +1 on this. Not sure if you're aware but I run a faucet rotator and it's nice to see I'm not the only one taking a stand. I had to prune ~40 sites yesterday due to annoying tactics like countdown timers and anti-adblocks. I'm only supporting the sites that aren't annoying as crap to use. I think the faucet niche has been drowned out by greedy owners that are willing to harass their members in the hopes they can get a few extra cents.

hello, sorry it ran out this morning (while i was sleeping) it runs out fast when a group of people win the top prize in a short time (happens some times) but I am loading it right now.

Sorry for the dry time but I am a 100% honest faucet that pays what I promise and I dont use any popups or shady marketing tricks.

I will load a big chunk as soon as I can (I use bitcoin to run all of my services so my bitcoin balance goes up and down daily)

Loading 0.06 now and more later today as well.

the 0.06 faucet load >> https://blockchain.info/tx/7c11a36a6b2ddda474382728b724fa51fa59da618e23479c37692d7a727c0751

It will be on the faucet within 3 confirmations.

UPDATE TO THE FAUCET LIST & DESIGN

1)
● Ok I have removed many ads from my list, some of them werent paying enough ,so it had no reason to wreck the design for a few hundred satoshis.
● Made my list clean and very visible, i`m still working on the design right now as we speak, so i might change some colors to make it more eye-friendly

2)
● I`ve noticed alot of faucets nowadays have added a new countdown timer to them, which is pretty annoying, and seen from my statistics (from faucetbox) faucet users dont really use these faucets, so i have no reason to feature them then, so i`ll just remove all faucets from my list that have this countdown timer.

The countdown timer looks like: "Please wait 30 seconds , in the meantime check out our sponsors" , and then the button appears, i think its intolerable to make them wait that much for nothing. I mean for video ads a 10 second ad is worth atleast 0.5$, so since faucets dont pay that much, they cannot force their users to wait that long.

● I`ll also remove faucets which play shady games with their button, they hide their button, or make you wait alot to see it, or just open up 10 popups when you click on it

2) faucetbtcs.com is permanently banned from my list, they are bankrupt, but now instead of filling up their faucets, when you click on the claim button they redirect you to another webiste to view more ads, pretty dishonest in my opinion  

3) Also the moneyinpjs.com site is bankrupt again, man you should really focus on filling up the site at time, otherwise you lose credibility from your faucet users

It's not newly created maybe you just searched just now. Can you list those? Im not sure anyway.

Hah , alot of faucets are created lately, it's just my impression or others see it too?

Hopefull it will increase the faucet reward average, OP should add all newly created ones to his list too!

Hey I will add your faucets to my list.

Can you add:

The Faucet Banker - thefaucetbanker.com
The Faucet Farmer - thefaucetbanker.com
The Faucet Hunter - thefaucethunter.com
and the Faucet Runner - thefaucetrunner.com/faucet!

Yep you can make your faucet more interesting (give out promo days, shout on twitter to your fauceters ,etc or if you have a programmer then add some nice features to the faucet like 1 circle that is flying around and if you catch it you win +100 satoshi, i saw that on another faucet , it's very hard to catch but it will reward you)

Other than that the most important thing is to keep your faucet liquid, whatever happens, you cannot let your faucet dry out, thats the most important thing, because no faucet user like bankrupt faucets

Thanks, I will make sure to keep it flowing and the prizes growing.

Yep really great list, as always, i will check out the surveys there, seems like some easy money.

Gud luck with your list!

I`ve updated the list, removed 1 faucet because it had too many popups.

Also we got 2 bankrupt faucets, i`ll give them 2 days to refill their faucet, otherwise they will be banned.

I`m talking about:  faucetbtcs.com    and    easy-bitcoin-free.com
So if the owner is watching this, he should better refill the faucet, this is not the first time it goes bankrupt.


Also congrats, your faucet is now at the 1st position, officially you have the best bitcoin faucet! 

Quota reached. Didn't noticed the survey. Well look like Im going to try it next time. Im tired hehe. I need to rank up my account here so that together with fauceting I can take sig campaigning. Whew.

Cool you did a great job, also try out the surveys that I have on the left side of my blog. They pay up to 1 € worth of bitcoin / task/survey.

Might be a little bonus to the faucet work

tired now.. 40k satoshis more to my daily quota.

Hmm i see, on the thread the a guy also confirmed it.

But still if you are a faucet owner and operate a big faucet with (over 1m$ cashflow) you cannot be "busy" to not pay your fauceters