a developer has created a VS Code extension that embeds advertisements into the loading spinners of Claude Code and Codex
in short, advertisers buy impressions, while users are incentivized with a percentage of the revenue for clicks and views
it functions similarly to those 2015-era websites that paid users for liking posts or solving captchas
payouts are calculated based on impressions: the longer the agent processes a prompt, the more earnings accumulate
personally, I highly doubt anyone can earn meaningful money from these views; my primary concern is that OpenAI might adopt this idea
currently, there are only 10 active ad campaigns, and the majority of them are crypto scams
Get paid to wait
The Claude Code spinner might be the most watched line on Earth.
So I turned it into an ad marketplace.
Advertisers bid on it. You keep 50% of the money.
Install the extension → get cash from ads.
Introducing Kickbacks