You clicked on the link in order to pass on the site, say, a psychological test. After answering the last question, you found that you need to send an SMS to get the result. Of course, you will not send it, but the time is still wasted. How do you tell a paid site before you spend time on it, not afterward?
Instructions
Step 1
Develop the skill of checking sites for paid by their genre alone. Learn to ignore links to resources where it is proposed to pass a step-by-step psychological test, choose a hairstyle, check vision in pictures, take an exam in a foreign language or traffic rules, check your computer for viruses directly from your browser (not to be confused with online services for checking individual files - they are free), compose your pedigree, find friends automatically in all social networks at once, play a quiz, find out the forecast for the future (which has nothing to do with reality), locate a mobile phone without the knowledge of the subscriber or read his SMS, etc.
Step 2
If you do go to the site, take a good look at it. Find the link to the Terms of Service. Such a link can be placed in an inconspicuous place on the page, highlighted in small print or in a font that blends with the background (in this case, select all the text on the page and you will see it), etc., but it is most likely there, since the owners of the resource try to avoid legal difficulties in this way. In particularly difficult cases, try to find a link to the Terms of Service by browsing the source code of the page.
Step 3
Read the terms carefully. If they indicate that the service is paid, do not waste not only money, but even time to further familiarize yourself with the content of the resource. Especially beware of sites whose terms of service explicitly state that the service is gambling, comic, etc.
Step 4
Remember that if you are asked not to send an SMS message, but, on the contrary, to enter the code received in the incoming message, this may also be a paid service. Moreover, in this case, you may be subscribed to the service, and in the future, funds from your account will be periodically debited without your participation. If this still happens, be sure to contact your operator's support service to agree on the cancellation of such a subscription.
Step 5
If you access the Internet using a cell phone or USB modem and you use a browser that downloads pages directly, and not through a proxy server to compress data, beware of sites with increased traffic billing. When you view them, additional funds are debited from the account immediately, and sometimes even without warning. It is better to familiarize yourself with the full list of such resources on the operator's website in advance. Note, however, that when accessing some resources, operators, on the contrary, do not charge traffic at all, even if the tariff is not unlimited. Their list is also located on the operator's website. On the contrary, you should not use browsers that use intermediate servers to view them.
