Surveys Online: Why You Should Avoid Hiding Your IP Address

As previously indicated in our previous articles about online surveys, a VPN can be used for various purposes. Let us utilize this article to highlight the considerations you should make before hiding your IP address when conducting one. 

1. The survey site’s security

Before using a VPN, you should examine the survey site’s security. Survey sites rely on receiving high-quality responses to remain viable.

If the responses they receive are not of high quality, the businesses they collaborate with will end their connection. As a result, websites will cease to exist, and paid surveys will become extinct.

To ensure that just the group they are interested in gets access to the surveys, sites ensure that only the group they are interested in has access.

For example, an American business that sells its products and services in the United States is unlikely to care about people’s opinions in other nations, as these individuals may have never heard of the product, let alone used it.

As a result, survey sites go to great lengths to ensure their systems retain a high level of security. One of the safeguards they implemented was to prohibit the usage of a VPN. This is clearly stated in their terms and conditions. As a result, the majority of GPT websites prohibit members from using VPNs.

Survey sites already employ techniques to determine whether a member uses a VPN or proxy. Although the quality of your VPN software will have an effect on how successfully they detect your VPN. However, keep in mind that utilizing a VPN on sites is against the regulations.

When these sites discover that you are using a VPN, they will immediately suspend your account, while others will suspend your account just as you are ready to withdraw your money.

In a nutshell, if your primary goal in using a VPN is to pretend to be from a nation that is not permitted to participate in surveys, this is considered fraudulent behavior by the majority of survey sites and will result in your account being suspended.

2. Virtual private networks (VPNs) can destroy survey sites

I realize how frustrating it is to be unable to access tempting offers on paid surveys and get-paid-to sites. This may convince you to use a VPN.

However, we should avoid doing anything that would negatively impact others while attempting to earn money online.

Individuals just like you own and operate survey firms. These people are attempting to provide for their families. By defrauding them through a VPN, you are steadily ruining their businesses and revenue streams.

I don’t believe someone can justify harming others solely for the sake of profit. When you use a VPN to conceal your IP address in order to participate in paid surveys, you are harming others and committing fraudulent conduct, which survey businesses must deal with.

If you wish to participate in surveys, please do it honestly by completing them on sites available in your country.

The Bottom Line 

VPNs are used for a variety of applications. However, obtaining a VPN just to hide your IP address while participating in paid surveys is not a good idea.

Keep in mind that the majority of survey sites frown upon the use of VPNs or proxies and view them as fraudulent.

However, VPNs are beneficial for a variety of additional reasons, including security and the ability to browse, stream, and use any website. However, because a VPN will make you appear to be from a different country, and most survey sites consider this to be fraud, I do not advocate this. If you’re already doing it, you should stop immediately because it will eventually result in your ban.

You may wish to utilize some of these survey sites in your own country. You do not even require a VPN to view them.

Regardless of why you wish to hide your IP address, I believe you now have a better understanding of the risks involved, and as a result, you should think hard before hiding your IP address when conducting paid surveys.