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Weird app paying you to scan receipts (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So my cousin was here and saw a grocery receipt on the table and asked if I was using it and if he could take a picture of it, I was like what, why?

So, there is this app that pays you some cents for receipt pictures and supposedly it pays you if it finds items that have cashback... shit sounds sketchy as fuck, I saw that on their app they sell credit cards and you can invest in some crap, but what I really found disturbing is this thing about them paying you to send them all your receipts... what the fuck are they doing with that info lol

Crazy stuff, but I'm completely out of touch with cellphone things, is this crap normal??? I was quite shocked by it, and checking the company online, Méliuz, I just see stuff about it buying bitcoin.

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Google Rewards Opinion app does this, scan receipts or answer random questions for Google Play cash. I assume they do it for market research to figure out better advertising (Google is in the advertising business after all).

Never heard of other apps doing that but I'm sure it's the same idea, other apps must use or sell that data to ad brokers.

this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026

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