Help me brainstorm a guide to automate paid-to-search sites and scale it with VMs for $$$

I'm talking about M$ and SB, ID, etc. Any other site. The point is to create a VM that can automate the task, then clone the VM and effectively scale the earnings indefinitely.

My idea is something like this:
TinyXP or some small Linux distro to minimize RAM usage. TinyXP would handle Windows software easier but is potentially a botnet.
VPN subscription for multiple US connections.
Bing browser and probably Chrome Browser.
Other apps that work to make money like Pawns.App and Honeygain that sell your data.
Potentially mining apps.
Auto search browser plugins set to search randomly over 24 hour periods. Issue with Edge is that while it gives more M$ points, I don't know of a browser extension that will auto search on it as of now.
M$ level 2 has a 250 point cap, so 50 searches over 24 hours. I'm using a Chrome plugin that lets you randomize the time between searches so it looks more natural.

Just going with that as an example, 250 points per day is 7500 points per month. a $5 Amzn giftcard is about 5000 points, so you're making about $7.50 per month per account.
Other sites are:
Qm33- requires you clicking something on the sidebar to earn, so I don't think it will work.
$w@gbuck$ - will work but randomly pays you. I read you need to wait so long between searches, which is fine. Can still do the 50 searches per day like the other ones. Possibly just run in a new Chrome profile simultaneously.
iR@z00 - It's listed on several sites but I can't get the website to load. Anyone know if they're down?
1nb0xD011@r$ - pays in scratch off tickets. Not worth it.
G1f+Hu1k - don't know much about it.
C@$hCr@te - says 1 cent per search up to 10 cents per day. That's $3 a month.

Android VMs to run phone apps would be another cool idea, but the problem is automating it. Is there something like Browser Automation Studio for Android? I know there's stuff like Tasker but it won't let me basically teach it by clicking, which it what it would have to do in order to work. This would open up a whole new world of PTC because a lot of sites have apps as well that let you earn even more per day.

The main issue is captchas. There are several captcha solving bots out there, even in BAS and the like, but I'm trying to keep this as minimal as possible and avoid captchas entirely if possible. This is a set and forget approach to make it scalable. Sure, $10 isn't much per VM, but get 100 VMS and now you have $1000 a month for doing nothing. That's my goal. After my first month I will just buy a dedicated machine to run a ton of VMs on.

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If anyone has any advice for airline miles then I am interested as well. I know there's a browser plug in for $kyM1le$ that lets you earn points for purchases. It would be cool if I could just buy something from myself repeatedly and rack up miles with the same cash. I know they allow W@1m@r+ but don't know if they allow the private sellers.

I know there will be an issue with P@wns and the like with many VPNs, but it's worth a try. I'm trying to optimize as best I can each VM so there's multiple streams of income. This is in case one account gets closed the VM will still make money in the meantime. I may not immediately notice.

I will have to do something about making all of the accounts, though. There are workarounds for M$ accounts without phone numbers, and you can always pay a site to give you a temp number to use for verification.

I would then need to change mail forwarding info to all go to one main account. That way I don't have to check every single account. I will probably just number the accounts, like botx1,botx2,botx3@schmuckmail, etc. It would be a lot easier if it were a G00g1e account because you can just put periods in names, so I could just use botx1, then botx.1, then bot.x1, and so on.

As for cashing out, it'd be simple because there's no check to where the giftcards are going. You could put them all on the same account. If you're using PP you can add alias addresses and receive funds to your main account through the new email, too.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that things should be set to automatically login, reconnect, etc. I personally use a hotel wifi access point, and every once in a while it will kick me off and require me to log back into the portal. This would disconnect all of my VMs at once, so setting the VPN to autostart and auto reconnect, keep the browsers logged in, etc., is the best way to do so.

Right now I am downloading Tiny 7. Base install uses ~1 GB of HD space and uses less than 100 MB of RAM. I will probably use a lightweight Chrome variant that allows for extensions to run the auto search plugin and keep resources low. Hopefully it will run with less than 256 MB of RAM total. I have 32 GB of RAM on this machine, so I could easily keep 30 machines running at less than 8 GB of RAM.

I also did find some auto clicker apps for Android. I could potentially run something like Droid4X or Genymotion on each VM to handle the app parts since SB, M$, etc., give extra points for using the mobile versions. This will increase the resource use of each machine by a lot, though. Droid4x is supposed to be the smallest and only require 1 GB of RAM to run, but that's 4x the original VM resource use. I don't know if the tradeoff is worth it. I do have a small phone farm already (5 phones) I could use to do this but using VM would make it much more scalable.

Can anyone help me find Android apps that pay to search, watch ads without captchas (or work with something like Adaway blocking them), etc.? I'm currently testing out various autoclicker apps to see which one would work best.

Edit: Found an app called Autoclicker that has swipe support. Seems to work decent so far. I have 10 swipes so it scrols all the way to the bottom, then 3 clicks (2 to click a new link and then 1 to click back). It scrolls indefinitely. Click each number to set the time between each action. It's very simple to use and so far seems to work. It just shows ads when you load it, so if you keep it open it shouldn't show more ads. I wish it would work by elements because occasionally it will open a photo and get stuck. I have 1 click to click the X but the other clicks zoom in and miss the X to close. I might just put it on the back button instead.

Got an update. Got my Tiny 7 machine installed. It's using 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB HD. Not what I had expected but I might try this with Tiny XP and see if I can get it smaller. I was doing it to get an android vm running on it but still don't have enough room, so I might make a new one and increase to 5-6 GB just to get Droid4x or Genymotion or something working. I did find there is a completely free Android autoclicker on F-Droid.

As for what it's accomplished so far, I did find a workaround for cell requirements for new email accounts. I have a new account named +1nyb0+ running m$ and pre$e@rch searches automatically.

I had to decompile the browser extension and run it in developer mode because it was using the old URL for one of the search engines. You can run them unpacked if you enable developer mode. This will allow me to add custom engines later when I find more sites to use. So far I'm making 40 cents per day from one and 25 cents from the other per instance. I currently have 2 instances going, one VM and one native. I'm using profiles to use the same browser with different settings for extensions.

I may redo my VM because it doesn't have enough disk space for an android VM. I found a few really lightweight ones that run older versions of Android like Kitkat that I will try first. It's currently using 1 GB RAM and 4 GB HD. I may try tiny XP as well to see if I can get lower resource usage. So for right now I'm not using anything on Android besides my actual phone.

I'm not sure if data selling sites like Pawns and Honeygain are worth it. So far in 2 weeks I've made maybe $2 between the two, so maybe 15 cents a day. All in all, that's $1.45 or so for all. The issue with these sites not letting you use VPNs is what kills it for me. I can try to get some residential proxies but the cost of them will probably push my profit margin into the negative and therefore make this whole attempt not worth it.

My progress so far. 2 VMs, 2 accounts. I am considering running multiple accounts via browser profiles and using a browser extension VPN but didn't put enough ram in them. The issue is that a lot of the IDs will be the same, such as the MAC and UUID. I don't know what exactly they use to uniquely identify machines besides IPs. This also lets me expand later into other things. I'm using 650 MB of RAM and 3 GB of HDD space (out of 4 GB) for each VM with both profiles loaded and the extensions running. See screenshot.

Even so, I still have 16 GB of RAM free and 300+ GB of free space on my linux PC. That's with Spotify, Chrome with 100 tabs, and Steam running.

Another interesting perk is that I can scan receipts (which I just do with my main account) and get cashback. So far I've made $3.30 on 7 receipts in the last 24 hours. It would be interesting to see if I can just scan the same receipts for multiple apps, but I'm sure they'll track the code. I do have multiple receipt scanning apps to use, but they don't pay as much as m does.

I just went in and added $B to the extension. It works and performs searches, but there's an issue: you must click a button whenever you earn points in order to claim your $B reward! I need some sort of browser automation extension that will recognize when this button exists and automatically click it. I need something like Selenium that will recognize when the button appears and select it before the next search is performed.

Still looking for other sites but I got IBD to work. It's the one with the scratch-offs. They give a $5 signup bonus as well as require $15 min to cash out. I'll give it a go on my machines since I have 350 MB left. Today I got 6 cents from it but you can save up to a level 3 scratch off, apparently. It's not much but something, I guess, until I find better options.

I also tried installing Brave because it pays BAT tokens for advertisements but I can't since Tiny 7 doesn't include SP1 . I may ultimately switch to a small linux distro running XFCE or something but am sticking to Tiny 7 for now. That's in case there's some Windows-only software out there, which I'm sure there is, that will earn me money.

Have you tried to get a custom bot for it?

Ai INTELLIGENCE said:

Have you tried to get a custom bot for it?

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I'm not going to buy a custom bot for it. I will write my own if need be. I'm looking for people who are actually interested in helping with the project and aren't trying to sell scam me with crappy code. I can download Selenium and get something built on my own.

I've checked most guides on here and most aren't really worth it. They're heavily reliant on referrals or other affiliate level marketing. This is purely automation with no outside requirements.

vagrance said:

Android VMs to run phone apps would be another cool idea, but the problem is automating it. Is there something like Browser Automation Studio for Android? I know there's stuff like Tasker but it won't let me basically teach it by clicking, which it what it would have to do in order to work. This would open up a whole new world of PTC because a lot of sites have apps as well that let you earn .

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You can use ZennoDroid for it

frin199821 said:

You can use ZennoDroid for it

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Thanks, I was looking for something I could use to fill in the search box. Can I use a wordlist or will I have to just type the same thing over and over? For now, I'm still using the autoclicker app on my phone. I have 2 other phones I can use to set up a small farm for that purpose. I know droid4x is supposed to be very small as well.

So while I have the 2 tiny7 VMs, I decided to move back to Linux. I have 2 Lubuntu installs after trying several smaller distros. They just don't have the dependencies preinstalled and stuff like DSL and Puppy Linux, while tiny, can't install the software I need it to. I'm now using the Brave Browser to harvest BAT tokens while doing the following:

Since Brave is Chrome-based, I can still use my custom plugin. It currently allows autosearch for M$, IBD, SB, and PS. I made some accounts for a service that pays you to stream videos that you can cash out to several sites, but I'm cashing it out to a crypto faucet and using the earnings to auto claim 4 types of crypto. The rest of the setup will work fine. Just create a separate browser profile and you can modify the extension settings for each site. I have the same browser open in several different instances.

I upped the RAM to 3 GB for Lubuntu, and it requires 8 GB to install, so it's a 10 GB drive. Once I get my new laptop I will convert this one to just a VM machine, and should be able to comfortably run 10 VMs at once. That's only 100 GB space and 30 GB RAM, but I might drop the VM ram down to 2.5 and find ways to lower the OS resource usage like running a lighter desktop environment.

I know most people wouldn't bother with this. The payout isn't great.
M$ is like 5 cents a day base but scales to 25 cents+ depending on what all you accomplish.
PS is like 1 cent a day.
IBD is decent and can probably get 25-40 cents per day.
SB I haven't bothered with at all.
With the tube sites, I made 150 points over night and converted them to 9000 ACP to run a crypto faucet. I'm going to guess 30 cents on this. The thing with the faucet is that you rank up over time and get a reward multiplier. I'm currently at level 6 and it goes up to like 1000.
BAT I have no idea yet. I just installed it and it says I have 4 cents already, and it was less than an hour ago. At that rate it'd be almost 50 cents a day.

Going into android emulation opens a lot of doors as there's a lot of apps that pay to do things on there. I am looking to get further into automation as there's a lot of apps that pay more (Serpclix is one) but require a bit more than just refreshing or auto searching to pull off. I'll be messing with Selenium over the summer and can hopefully develop a decent bot to run for higher farming profit.

So I'm guestimating $1 a day for this setup right now. That's per machine. 10 on my laptop is $10, and if/when I get a VPS or server then an infinite amount.

I know a lot of people would scoff at this and not even bother, but the point is that it's 95% automated. I could check the machines once a week to cashout, etc., then go back to what I was doing. $10 a day is $3650 a year. This is also NOT ILLEGAL but may be against tos.

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My main issue is the resource overheard for this. I went with VMs thinking there'd be software I could use in order to make more money, like Crypto Tab or Pawns, etc. Most won't work with multiple instances on the same machine. For the websites themselves, I could just run a ton of different profiles and use proxy sites to limit the overhead. I may still do this. The issue is that stuff like Brave Browser will not work with multiple instances in this way. Then there's the fact that the video stream may not work over a proxy, either, depending on its protocol, and require a VPN (which will require another VM). I haven't found a way to nest VPNs yet besides maybe one system-wide and one browser-based, but even then they usually conflict.

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Besides this I've been doing cashback with like 6 apps at once with 1 receipt. I'll buy something and get $3-4 back. Worth looking into if you have the time and dedication.

Update: I did get 2 VPNs to work with a different browser extension, so I can do a lot of it with browser profiles now. I just have one VM to keep it separate running 2 entirely separate instances of all of the sites, including streaming videos, using two separate IPs.

This will really help with the resource overhead. I may just pay for a VPN provider now that offers a browser extension and load as many brave profiles as I can at once. HTOP is showing my mem use at 2.73 GB with both profiles loaded side-to-side streaming videos with the plugins in the background set to auto search at around 2 (when I get home). That'll kick them both off of the video stream page and I'll check them then restart the streams.

It may be safer to do this all through VMs in case I get a memory leak, which will stay contained inside the VM. That way just one VM will crash instead of the entire desktop.

this is the first time im hearing about paid-to-search browsers. i understand what you’re trying to do. im pretty experienced with selenium. id be more than willing to take on the challenge of automating something like this over the summer and contributing to this thread as the knowledge required to do something like this will naturally keep it undersaturated.

of course if it really does generate $10 per vm u can scale it up infinitely with how many computers your room can fit being the limit.

do you think you could dm me like a key for the abbreviations ur using so i can properly research for this?

also, are you trying to all this without programming? also dont give up on avoiding vm detection. id expect these services to have a ton of bot protection. with the right proxy provider you can definitely go positive spending less than $10/month per proxy.

also what do you mean by “custom plugin”?

keek82 said:

this is the first time im hearing about paid-to-search browsers. i understand what you’re trying to do. im pretty experienced with selenium. id be more than willing to take on the challenge of automating something like this over the summer and contributing to this thread as the knowledge required to do something like this will naturally keep it undersaturated.

of course if it really does generate $10 per vm u can scale it up infinitely with how many computers your room can fit being the limit.

do you think you could dm me like a key for the abbreviations ur using so i can properly research for this?

also, are you trying to all this without programming? also dont give up on avoiding vm detection. id expect these services to have a ton of bot protection. with the right proxy provider you can definitely go positive spending less than $10/month per proxy.

also what do you mean by “custom plugin”?

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Yeah there's several and I'm sure they do. Fingerprint blocking extensions already exist for Chrome, and Brave browser is based on Chrome so every extension works. I will probably install them to prevent it but am now using a Lubuntu VM instead of tiny 7. I'm using 2 profiles currently but plan on doing more.

So right now the process is this:
- VM to host it all
- Brave Browser for BAT Tokens
- Chrome extension-based VPN for multiple VPN connections on same machine
- Auto-search script set to run every day for random searches
- Stay logged into M$
- Run paid-to-watch site all day

It does not generate $10 per day. It might generate $1 at best. I'm trying to scale it so it will generate 10-20 per day and be a decent income stream. Once the process is systematized and fully automated, it can be cloned and scaled infinitely to make more money. My main "profile" has more accounts but my bot profiles just run these 3 in combination all day. Presearch sucks, TBH. It will take FOREVER to cash out but it does pay in PRE tokens. You only earn maybe 20 a day and need 1000 to cashout, so 50 days just for 10 bucks or something. Not worth it. I'll just scale what I know works instead.

The bot payout right now is maybe 5 cents search until I hit rank 2, which will then increase to 15 cents per day until I run Android emus to automate the web searches for another 13 cents per day, and 10-15 cents for video streaming per day. I don't cash it out to cash but to a crypto faucet that then gives me a ton of faucet drips. I have maybe 20 cents in BTC and then 8 other cryptos are like 2 cents.

They were doing presearch for another 5-10 cents or whatever and then I have a few other sites I can include that will increase the pay. IBD will add another 25 cents or so

I will DM you what sites I have. The machines aren't making 50 cents a day besides my main profiles.

I can program. I finish my bachelor's in computer science this year. I just haven't got to that part yet. The chrome extension required me editing the javascript in order to be able to run custom search engines correctly. I don't think a layman would have figured it out, or that search engines use custom URLs that can be parsed with javascript from an external source.

Selenium or something similar is to make this more advanced. One such search engine, Swagbucks, does pay for searhes but does so randomly. You have to click a button when it appears to collect your points. I will have to write a script that detects when that button appears and then to click it. It might also show CAPTCHAs, so it will have to detect when they are and either run a CAPTCHA solving script (which costs) or skip it until the buttons appear.

CAPTCHA solving extensions do exist and will automate them, but they're at minimum $5 a month. It does open a lot of doors to expand this but it is more overhead cost. So far I'm spending $0. I'm using a free VPN that works fine because this doesn't use a lot of bandwidth to do it.

The plugin is one that's on the Chrome store. I downloaded its source code using an extension that DDLs the plugins, unpacked it, modified the javascript, then enabled developer options in my browser to run unpacked browser extensions. That way I can freely modify the extension and just reload it until it's ready to go.

It will create word lists (currently have 9999 count word lists) that run at certain times during the day for so many searches with a random time between each search. That way it looks a bit more natural.

The plugin can be run with separate settings for each profile, but it cannot be ran in one profile multiple times. I will have to modify it for each search engine and then create separate extension instance for that. It'll basiclly be "search plugin 1" "search plugin 2" etc all running in the same browser window for each plugin.

And for Selenium and such, there's sites like Serpclick that pay for you to click specific links. A custom script will have to be made in order to detect the one that needs clicked. It will have to click through each search engine page, then check the images as well, and find the one marked in red to click. If I can get this working it will pay more than ANY other site since they pay like 25 cents per click! It's my next project. Scaling that would make a ton of money.

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Other than that, I am running a bunch of receipt scanning apps simultaneously. M$ also offers it and pays decent. You can get 25 cents or so for each receipt by scanning it to 6-7 apps, plus bonus points and random stuff like free casino wheel spins. It's all for gift cards but I'll make $25 or more in gift cards each month between this and the VMs.

The VM is still going strong today. With the 3 I lowered it to, it's making about 50 cents per instance. Not great but I still want to expand. I will bump it up to 10 instances when I get the chance

Sorry my English is not very good. I have many high configuration computers, if you have a specific monetization process, I think we can do it together

Very interesting.

I would like to see payout screens also.
Some PTC sites check your traffic before payout and may cancel if something looks very odd.
Have you got any such money/payout yet?

Keep posting. I might try it.
what is QM33 ? cant find it, found all the others.

olivier said:

Very interesting.

I would like to see payout screens also.
Some PTC sites check your traffic before payout and may cancel if something looks very odd.
Have you got any such money/payout yet?

Keep posting. I might try it.
what is QM33 ? cant find it, found all the others.

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Qmee but it pays out randomly and is a browser extension. You have to click it at the right time, something that would be automated like $wagbxxx would be.

I know that and that's what I'm worried about, but I haven't had any issues yet. found out there's a bonus after so many days so I'm going to hold and cash out at 1000. From my understanding, it is not against TOS at all, although there are reports of people having issues with the companies they get paid out to holding their funds. There's a lot of sites they link to. I haven't had any issues with M$ or Brave, though.

I'm looking for really cheap server space somewhere to run VMs on. I found a free one through a major tech company but you have to wait until they have room to host, and I haven't been able to claim an instance yet. It would be 4-core with 24 GB of RAM, but it's totally free.



My VM is set to 8 GB and is using right under 3 running Lubuntu with 2 profiles. I should be able to add at least 4 more. I haven't had any issues with the extension running automatically or the video stream timing out. Points are building but slower than I thought they would. Still, it's almost fully automatic. Just sit and wait. You have to check it every day because sometimes the extension will push the search to the main tab. The video tab has to be viewable for it to stream, but you can overlap different windows with video and they will all run at once.

I'm sitting at about 5000 M$ points between all 3 accounts, and it will build up faster in 2 days once the 2 new accounts hit level 2. I should be able to make ~15$ a month in Amazon giftcards from that. I'm at 81 cents total from Brave and then 48 cents from video steaming. I had a lot more from video streaming with my main account but cashed it out. I cashed out 34 cents already to Fir3f@uc3+ and converted it into crypto, so that would put my total at 82 cents. That's since last Friday. This is all less than a week's time. I will update on Friday to see what my gains are and will make more accounts today or tomorrow to fill up my VM. The accounts weren't running for a few days when I switched from individual VMs to one Lubuntu VM.

For the giftcards, I don't see a problem cashing out at all because it gives you a redemption code. It doesn't link to any specific account, so I can pile them all into one Amazon accout.

For Brave, you can link the same wallet account to all of them. I haven't had any issue using the same account to link them all to. Apparently they only cash out once per month. According to https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056508071-How-many-Brave-Rewards-wallets-can-be-linked-to-my-crypto-custodian-account- you can link an unlimited amount of devices to the same custodial account, though, so that won't be an issue.

L00+ does have an issue, though. You can only link one payout method to each account. I might be able to unlink and relink, but I am looking for a way to put all of it in the same pile. I will probably go with other crypto faucets and then transfer it out once it hits the minimum to the same crypto wallet.

150 per M$ account per day x3 is 4500 points, but my main makes 290 or so total, so 8700 points a month. That's 17,700 total or 5900 average, which is more than enough for the $5 giftcard. That's why I said $15 a month, but it's an average.

Brave isn't doing as well as I thought it would, but it's only been a few days since I made the switch. It's averaging about 5.4 cents per day per instance. 81 cents divided by 5 days divided by 3 machines. That puts it at $4.86 per month at its current rate for all 3 machines.

That figure is about the same for L00+. So now I'm at around $25 give or take per month between the 3 instances. At ~8 an instance, I'll need 10 more to break $100 but it will take minimal work, maybe 10 minutes a day to cash out and close windows/switch tabs.

With Pawns and Honeygain running, I've made $1 each with them. Pawns often messes up, however, and will say there's some sort of error and require a reboot.

Other than that, the receipt thing works if you use several accounts. M$ has it built in as well. I've already cashed out about $3.50 from them.

I'm also doing other side gig stuff that's more active, so this isn't my only thing. Just something I randomly check on while doing homework and contracting online.

I believe there are better libraries for automation, but the doubt is would it be necessary to build a script for each search or are they basically the same fields?

And brave is the only browser that works for this or the normal ones like chrome also work?

liladhen said:

I believe there are better libraries for automation, but the doubt is would it be necessary to build a script for each search or are they basically the same fields?

And brave is the only browser that works for this or the normal ones like chrome also work?

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I'm sure there is. Browser Automation Studio is free. I'm using Autoclicker for Android, but there's one on F-Droid that's completely free that does the same stuff.

Well it's all duplicates so the one extension I'm using works for every instance. It's an auto search script that I downloaded the source code of and modified. It's using one of the original search engines for the VM instances, but my main accounts use the custom ones since I haven't implemented those searches into my VM instances yet.

Any browser works, but I'm personally using Chrome-based browsers. I use Brave because it also pays. I have over $1 already just from Brave. Not much but after scaling it it will be more. Cryptotab is also available but uses your CPU, and that's not something I want to deal with. Brave just shows ads.

I'm looking at adding H1d30ut.teevee and 1nb0xd011@r$ to each instance because they do work, although it will make it more time consuming for the profitability. The first is paid to watch videos but times out after a while and you have to click a button to continue viewing. The other only lets you search so many times a day then you have to scratch off a ticket to get like 10 cents. Supposedly it goes up to $10 but I haven't seen it yet. They give you $5 up front and it's $20 to cash out.

I'm also looking for a free VPS. I found free cloud instances with major tech companies but they don't have any available space right now so I haven't actually got one working yet. Once I do I'll just copypasta it with different profiles until I have maybe 2 gigs free as a buffer so it'll last a while if there's a memory leak. I don't want to have to check it every day just to reset it.