Posted by Truly “FREE” would be freedom from spam. But you can dodge the spam barrage.
If you enter the Healthy Wage website for the first time, and enter some Healthy Wager bet inputs (biometric and contractual), they will compute a prize for you.
But before you get to see it, you get this:
We promise—this is the very last step to get a prize offer.
Once you give them an email and password, you’ll get to see the prize you are being offered. But if you actually enter an email address from an account you own, several things happen.
- You get email after boilerplate email inviting you to sign up, indefinitely
- Your web browser shows Healthy Wage ads on sites that allow advertising
- Your biometric data is locked into the calculator and cannot be changed (although you can still change what I call the “contractual” inputs—pledged pounds, time, and dollars per month
While the first two effects are mildly annoying, the last one is actually he biggest pain in the ass. If your weight changes or you entered your height wrong, or misidentified your gender, you have to contact customer service and have them go in and change it or reset it for you.
Fortunately, the solution is simple—just enter a fake email address! Be creative as you want to be with it. Fakeyfake@fakeness.fke.
By doing so, you solve (1) easily: the Healthy Wage servers send their spam out to an imaginary internet place, and get returned to sender. Other than ones and zeros doing make-work there is no harm done.
The (2) effect is still present—go to a small website that allows the host to advertise on it and Healthy Wage will appear in the ads. You can clear your cookies to get rid of this.
Unfortunately, (3) is still in effect as well—you cannot change the biometric data for your fake email profile. The workaround? Naturally, log out and create another fake profile.
This was the way I conducted my investigation of the calculator. I created an army of fake prospective clients, all of different sexes and sizes. I would have preferred not to do this, but the way things are set up now on the website it was necessary.
If you’re not interested as I am in calculator mining, you can still find value in doing what-if with fictional future versions of you.
Let’s say you want to lose a lot of weight over the long term, but you might want to do so using two shorter sequential HealthyWagers rather than one long one. You may want to see what he prize might be on the second wager, should you complete the first one on time and hit your goal weight spot-on.
If you enter your actual email address, you cannot use that account to do that investigation, because your current weight is locked in. But you can log out and create a bogus profile and get this prize value.
Generally you will find that a long wager pays better than the sum of two sequential wagers, and that makes a lot of sense. But sequential wagering does have the advantages of safety and capturing benefit for getting a lot of the job done. It’s a truly a dilemma situation for you.
I have no qualms about creating fake Healthy Wage accounts. The YouTube add screenshot above has the word “FREE” in capital red text. And if you watch the ad, when the announcer says the word “free”, the “FREE” briefly bulges out. And I saw nothing in the terms of service precluding someone from doing this. If they didn’t like it, they could fix it so you couldn’t do it anymore—but then “FREE” would have to go away.
Soon I will post about the calculator models themselves. I am getting there…
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