Built to be believed.
Money changes how people behave — so the rules have to be boring, visible, and in plain words. Here's exactly how this stays straight.
Money changes behavior. So the rules are boring, visible, and in plain words.
Never reads your code.
WaitWage does not inspect your prompts, your code, your repositories, your conversations, or your files. While the agent is thinking, the extension swaps the visible status message — "Analyzing…", "Stewing…" — for one sponsored line in that same slot. That's the whole job.
It works purely on the rendered status layer — the text you already see on screen. There's no source access, no file reads, no scanning of what you typed. Nothing about your work is sent anywhere, and there's no content telemetry. The extension can't see your code because it never asks to.
Almost nothing leaves your machine.
To pay you, we need two facts: which sponsored message was shown, and an anonymized count of how often. That's it. Those numbers are what your payout is built on.
What we never collect: your prompts, code, files, repo names, conversations, keystrokes, or anything the agent produced. There's no profile of you, no content logging, no selling data on the side. If a field isn't needed to pay you fairly, we don't store it.
Scoped, sandboxed, and boring on purpose.
The extension is tightly scoped to the one thing it does: replacing visible status text during processing. It has no background channel reaching into your code, and no reason to open one.
Releases are signed, and we're upfront about every permission the extension asks for — no quiet expansions in a later update. Because it only touches the UI status slot, the blast radius is small by design. Less surface, fewer ways for anything to go wrong.
We screen who gets in.
A human reviews every sponsor before a single message ships. No shady ad networks, no malware, no dark patterns. If a sponsor wouldn't pass your sniff test, they don't pass ours.
Inventory is brand-safe and the messages are plain text in a status slot — no scripts, no trackers riding along, nothing that redirects or installs. We'd rather turn away revenue than run something that makes you trust the extension less.
Bots don't get paid.
Rewards only land on real requests from real machines. Fake traffic earns nothing — that's how the money stays honest, for you and for sponsors.
Scripted loops, spoofed sessions, and synthetic activity are filtered out before anything clears. Sponsors only pay for genuine moments where a real developer was actually waiting on the agent. That keeps your earnings clean and keeps sponsors willing to fund the next message.
Open your ledger anytime.
Every paisa is logged: who sponsored it, which request it was tied to, and when it cleared. No black box, no mystery math — just a list you can read.
The split is plain too: developers keep 70% of what the sponsor pays. When you want the money out, it's UPI or bank — no points, no store credit, no expiry games. What you earned is what you withdraw.
If it's bad for you, we don't ship it.
The whole thing is opt-in, forever. Turn it on when you want the messages, pause it the moment you don't. Nothing runs behind your back.
It's local-first, your code is never read and never sold, and you stay in control of the toggle. We judge every feature by one question: is this good for the developer? If the answer is no, it doesn't make it into a release.
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Now you know how it stays honest.
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