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  "id": 17679865,
  "title": "How \"get-paid-to\" apps like Freecash, briefly a top five App Store app in September, pay users small sums to play games and help publishers find big spenders (John Herrman/New York Magazine)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/how-get-paid-to-apps-like-freecash-briefly-a-top-five-app-store-app",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-01T20:50:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/down-and-out-in-the-app-store.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Is getting paid to scroll a symptom of the economy or its entire future? — Last year, Jeremiah's TikTok started feeding him ads for a new way to make money.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}