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AssociatedLJSwan @ Nielsen on 09/04/2021 - 17:30 nbn-nielsenpanel.com (911 clicks)
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Sign up for Nielsen Broadband Panel and unlock free reward by connecting their Whitebox device to your router. You can get $30 after connecting the device for a month, a monthly incentive and a chance to win $1000 in their monthly raffle!

The panel is developed to assess Australian consumers' Internet services and determine the status of broadband service performance across Australia.

From their FAQ, it said - "We will not be able to view what you are “looking at” or viewing online, i.e. we won’t collect information about the content viewed by you. We will only collect the results of network testing. This does not include any packet data, which means no data is collected that reveals what websites you are looking at or the content of your down and uploads. We do not collect any of your private information, such as account passwords or banking information. As part of the contractual obligations, we are not permitted to share specific details with our client about our participants. In addition, our client will not seek to re-identify any de-identified information and, thereby, reveal the participants’ identities."

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  • The Milk Man on 09/04/2021 - 17:31
    +1

    Are they offering us $30 to sell our browsing data?…I'm confused.

    • Narchos on 09/04/2021 - 17:38
      +2

      "We will not be able to view what you are “looking at” or viewing online, i.e. we won’t collect information about the content viewed by you. We will only collect the results of network testing. This does not include any packet data, which means no data is collected that reveals what websites you are looking at or the content of your down and uploads. We do not collect any of your private information, such as account passwords or banking information. As part of the contractual obligations, we are not permitted to share specific details with our client about our participants. In addition, our client will not seek to re-identify any de-identified information and, thereby, reveal the participants’ identities."

    • CarnivalMonkey on 09/04/2021 - 17:42
      +2

      its a device that will send to and receive a ping from nielsen test servers. it has no way of accessing your data. it won't get between you and the internet, it is just checking latency and speed of your connection.

      edit
      I should add, the app does a similar test via wifi/3g/4g from your devices (phone and tablet) and is not rerouting your data.

      • deme on 09/04/2021 - 21:13
        +1

        I'm too lazy to explain it: ARP Spoofing

        I'm not saying they do it.

  • Lost-Sons of dallas on 09/04/2021 - 17:41

    Doesnt seem worth it after week 4 as the electricity cost will probably be more than $2.50 a month

    • chrism238 on 09/04/2021 - 17:53
      +3

      Struggling with arithmetic?

      • comphelp on 09/04/2021 - 18:09
        +2

        It's $30 for the first month then only $2.50pm thereafter.

    • dealord on 06/05/2021 - 11:15
      +4

      I've not seen the device, but I'm imagining its something like the NBN modem, and there is NO WAY something like that would use $2.50 a month in electricity. More like $2.50 a year

  • digitaltango on 09/04/2021 - 17:48
    -5

    Is our privacy worth $30?

    • CarnivalMonkey on 09/04/2021 - 17:52
      +2

      it's nothing to do with privacy. it doesn't have the ability to see what you are doing. it exists purely to check the connection speed relevant to the selected server/s neilsen are using. none of your household internet traffic flows "through" it.

      • Agret on 26/10/2021 - 18:51

        The box sits between your modem and your router, they could easily intercept the traffic.

  • digitaltango on 09/04/2021 - 17:58
    -1

    do you really trust them when they say "We do not collect any of your private information"? To me this means "You will never know what data we are collecting. Privacy is just a myth now a days..

    • CarnivalMonkey on 09/04/2021 - 18:01
      +2

      I don't understand how you perceive a device that is set up to ping/speedtest as somehow suddenly able to reroute all your household data.

      • SickDmith on 09/04/2021 - 18:15
        +2

        Read setup instructions.
        They want their "whitebox" to be the man-in-the-middle.

    • Chickenleg on 09/04/2021 - 18:14

      Nobody’s forcing you to sign up for this

    • Tardvark on 09/04/2021 - 18:23

      Unless they're acting as a gateway it would be safe. But it looks like they will be acting in a MiTM scenario. So there will need to be a level of trust. They won't be able to decrypt any encrypted traffic, but they can of course see your DNS queries (but so can most of the Internet), email (unless your provider uses encryption — i.e. gmail, etc.), what hosts you're connecting to over HTTPS, but not the contents and the pages you're connecting to.

      • CarnivalMonkey on 09/04/2021 - 18:40

        while I understand man in the middle attacks, the set up for the device also makes no sense. I have a router/modem. it wants to be connected to it via LAN cable. I plug a cable into the whitebox and then into my modem/router. I am not changing any modem/router/wifi settings, just adding a device. I agree with you about the trust side of things. I would be wanting clarification on a lot of it before agreeing to anything (which I won't). I would be more concerned someone sent me a low powered crypto miner than trying to see which pronhub sub I was browsing.

  • King Steuart on 09/04/2021 - 17:59
    +19

    4 weeks of no illegal online activity? I'd rather impersonate jv…

  • ihfree on 09/04/2021 - 18:01

    This is measuring broadband performance, not wifi performance and looks to require a connection via Ethernet.

    From a skim read, they only mention monitoring of wifi in the setup instructions which seems a little dodgy and inconsistent.

  • SickDmith on 09/04/2021 - 18:13
    -1

    I can't say if this company can be trusted…
    I've never heard about them before.

    Check connection instructions:

    "Disconnect any other wired network devices from your home ADSL / cable router. Plug them into the ports marked 1 – 4 on the rear of the Whitebox."

    Classic man-in-the-middle. :)
    They are not going to "just ping something" or run speedtest.
    It looks like they really want all your traffic to go through their router (whitebox).
    Fair enough you need it if you want to see how connecting is performing.

    So I think they really should work on PR.
    For example, people are Ok to trust Google routers or wiretap devices smart speakers because of brands and companies behind them.

    Who is The Nielsen Company (US), LLC?
    I have no idea!
    Can we trust US privacy law?
    Hmmm… I am not sure about this. :)))

    • dmbminaret on 09/04/2021 - 18:24
      +2

      I can't say if this company can be trusted…
      I've never heard about them before.

      Thanks. I certainly feel better.

    • twocsies on 09/04/2021 - 18:37
      +14

      Nielsen is a huge multinational ($6+ billion annual) that's synonymous with market research. Its Nielsen ratings serve as the primary driver for how much advertisers pay for ads (on US television).

    • Nilfunds on 09/04/2021 - 18:52
      +2

      welcome to outside your cave!

    • No on 09/04/2021 - 19:51

      Could I plug this into my router then just plug a single device into it such as a TV ? Would that give them less details on the rest of my stuff?

  • herecomestheoost on 09/04/2021 - 18:35

    It says invitation only when attempting to register.

    • Hintswen on 09/04/2021 - 19:02
      +1

      It let me register just fine.

  • [Deactivated] on 09/04/2021 - 18:56
    +2

    I just found the project for the ozbargain mango router, free optus SIM, free NordVPN, and the raspberry pi kit.

  • seanbaussie on 10/04/2021 - 09:59
    +2

    I've been doing this for about a year, nothing too difficult and it just sits next to my router with a piece of cable connected. As I don't have anything plugged in to my internet (all wifi) then no man in the middle etc.

    I test my connection through it every now and then but their results oddly enough are rubbish, not sure what they do but they're not correct.

    I haven't won the $1,000 raffle yet 😌.

  • endlesstrail on 06/05/2021 - 13:46
    +2

    I've been doing this with the Samknows White box thing years ago, and with no monetary incentive. This sounds like a better deal. I don't think it matters whether you connect your other ethernet devices to it or not. I think that was also an instruction with the whitebox I received, but I just connected it to an unused port on my router and all my other devices stayed on the original ports. No biggie.

    • CrazySurfaNZ on 06/05/2021 - 20:22
      +1

      Yeah this is what I'd do too. It's more likely they want to be in the middle so they can ensure other activity is minimal when they're testing so that the results are accurate, but agreed that does mean the potential for mitm is there.

  • scottb721 on 26/05/2021 - 20:29

    Hope their TV ratings measurement doesn't go self-install anytime soon. That'll be me out of an awesome job.

  • macr0hard on 27/05/2021 - 11:33

    Trying to sign up and there’s a field for referral code. Is there a random generator for this one?

    • rysith on 27/05/2021 - 14:11

      PM'd

  • roninxt on 11/07/2021 - 16:25

    Just a note that you will be unable to the see the speed tests results from the admin console of the box they send you. The box is just there collecting your data.

  • comphelp on 22/07/2021 - 22:49

    I've been using this for a couple of months now. I'm in the process of changing ISP's.

    Has anyone done this?

    Do they care? I'm guessing I need to let them know.

  • macr0hard on 24/07/2021 - 09:38

    has anyone received the $30? I've signed up with them for about 2 months now and havent got anything. Do I need to contact them or it's done automatically?

  • gungirlyuna on 14/12/2021 - 11:09

    Does this work?

    • macr0hard on 14/12/2021 - 13:37
      +1

      depends what you meant by that. I joined in June, so far have got 520 points, with 500 points I can get a $50 gift card to a number of well used stores for practically doing nothing so yes it works for me. If you're a female can also join their beauty panel (there's also a referral promo until end of Dec)

  • Agret on 14/12/2021 - 18:45

    I clicked through and got the acceptance letter from SamKnows and then I didn't accept it in the period. I contacted SamKnows and they sent me their form to fill out and I have been running the box for several months now. Not sure how to view my points from the SamKnows dashboard and I can't see any incentive portal or anything on the SamKnows site. Does anyone know how to link it to Nielson?

  • brisdaz on 21/07/2022 - 09:15

    Does anyone know the difference between the information you get via the NBN hired Nielsen Samknows NBN testing and via the ACCC hired Samknows NBN testing?

    With NBN Nielsen the information is not as detailed with your information being grouped with other users whilst with ACCC it's more individual?

  • brisdaz on 08/11/2022 - 03:41

    Does anyone else find out that they have more "are you a bot?" checks? I think every hour the Nielsen box pings the top 10 websites, thus it may trip some security algorithm?

  • trotsky on 09/05/2023 - 12:29
    +1

    Looks like the panel is closing, got an email today saying it is going

    • brisdaz on 09/05/2023 - 15:38

      So did I. Confirmed.

      There's still the ACCC one but that provides personal performance data only, which this deal didn't (only aggregate),

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