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Udemy course enroller: Get paid udemy courses for free

by Researcherry on 12/18/21, 12:15 PM with 8 comments

• by gentleman11 on 12/18/21, 3:43 PM

  I looked into making a udemy course once but it wasnt even close to worth it even if the course was a hit. The platform takes about 2/3rds of your revenue

  > Sales that do not occur through an instructor promotion: instructors receive 37% of the revenue for any Udemy sales

  (Instructor promotion means the student entered a coupon code provided by the instructor via that instructors own off-site marketing)

  https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229605008-Instru...

• by rockyj on 12/18/21, 3:58 PM

  Seems a bit illegal. Also do not run random scripts from the internet which control your browser. For all we know, they could be scraping your own sensitive data.

• by greenyoda on 12/18/21, 12:30 PM

  This is a clever hack. However, I'm guessing that if the coupon sites you're scraping notice a lot of scraping activity, they'll start hiding the coupons behind CAPTCHAs to block the scrapers.

• by adamisom on 12/18/21, 3:26 PM

  They’ve amassed 4K courses, how many have they finished? You could alternatively amass 4K always-free courses, it’s be equally pointless.