Cursor—The AI code editor. ActiveAn extension runs on the reader’s machine, so anything it claims can be forged. It never asserts that someone earned money — it reports that it is currently being shown, and the server decides whether a minute completed and what it was worth.
Elapsed time is measured with the server’s own clock between those signals. Sending them faster earns nothing, because the time between them is what counts, and changing the clock on the device achieves nothing for the same reason.
A minute counts only if the bar was on screen, the tab in front, and the reader recently active, continuously. If the signal stops for longer than half a minute the partial minute is discarded rather than resumed. Advertisers are not charged for it and readers are not paid for it.
Balances are always added up from individual entries; no running total is kept anywhere that could drift from them. Entries are never edited — a correction is a new offsetting entry, so what was credited and later taken back both stay on the record. Earnings are held for five days before becoming available, which is the window in which invalid activity can be reversed.
Every impression records the rate and revenue share that applied at the time, so changing prices later never rewrites what past minutes were worth.
Media credit is added only when Stripe confirms the payment directly to us, never when a browser returns from checkout. Campaign creatives are structured text and a link — advertisers cannot supply code, markup or scripts — and destinations must be https, checked both when the campaign is saved and again before anyone is sent there.
Creatives are reviewed by a person before they run, and editing the message or destination of a live campaign sends it back for review.
No browser can prove a person was looking at the screen. We can show that the bar was displayed in an active tab on a machine in use, and that the time genuinely elapsed. We cannot prove attention itself, and we do not claim to.
Relatedly, a browser can tell whether the bar is within the window, but not whether another element is covering it. Anyone selling “verified visibility” in stronger terms than that is describing something the platform does not expose.
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