After all have been purchased essential products for coronavirus Russians were faced with a difficult question: what to do during the quarantine week? And here educational, entertaining and educational online services will come to the rescue, which temporarily made their services free.
We offer you the top 10 Internet services that have become free due to the coronavirus.
10. "KinoPoisk"
The largest Russian-language cinema portal took care of the leisure of Russians during the quarantine due to COVID-19 and opened free access to more than 7,000 films, cartoons and TV series in the KinoPoisk HD online cinema.
The subscription will be valid until the end of April and will allow you to use all the features of not only KinoPoisk, but also Yandex.Plus.
It can be used by all users who currently do not have a subscription (including Yandex.Plus), as well as users who have subscribed to KinoPoisk for the trial period, but have not renewed it.
9.IVI
The popular Russian online cinema did not introduce promotional codes, limiting itself to a symbolic fee for a 30-day subscription. Until April 15, you can connect it for just 1 ruble. In this case, the automatic renewal of the subscription can be canceled at any time.
This service includes:
- access to 80,000 films and TV series with 4K and HDR picture and 5.1 sound;
- the ability to download over 10,000 of them to a mobile device;
- lack of advertising while watching;
- simultaneous viewing of a movie on 5 devices at once (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.).
8. Netology
The online educational platform provided everyone with unlimited access to 80 videos on marketing and management. You can take mini-courses on your own and at any time. The promotion with free access is valid for a month.
So if you have long wanted to get a little structured and up-to-date knowledge on the basics of cybersecurity, working with Excel, classic project management, and other interesting things that can be useful in business, then now is the right time.
7. GeekBrains
GeekBrains portal is intended for those who are taking their first steps in programming, management, marketing and design.
To get access to three online educational courses, you need to register on the website and fill out a short questionnaire, the link to which is given above. This service will be available until March 31st.
6. Foxford
Since the quarantine also affected several thousand Russian schools, the Foxford online educational platform provided free access to any courses in the school curriculum. Indeed, even during the SARS-CoV-2 virus epidemic, students need to gain knowledge.
The promotion will be valid until May 31 of this year.
5.1Password
The popular password manager has played a role in supporting business in these challenging times around the world. It removed the 30-day limitation in its trial version, although the usual cost for this service is $ 7.99. This way both managers and employees can work safely from home.
To take advantage of the generous 1Password offer, you need to sign up for the app. The unlimited trial version will be valid for six months.
4. Pornhub (18+)
The world's largest resource for adults has decided to make a contribution to the fight against coronavirus. He introduced an incentive premium for those who voluntarily agreed to self-isolation, as well as for those who undertake to comply with WHO recommendations - to wash their hands and keep a distance from other people (3 meters).
Both those who have not yet been to Pornhub and those who have registered a regular account there can get a free premium account. The premium will be valid until April 23.
3. Synchronization
The project, which tells about art in an accessible language, during the coronavirus epidemic provided everyone with free access to the courses "History of Art in 10 Masterpieces" and "History of Cinema in 10 Films".
They include video tutorials, copyright texts, tests and additional materials (a selection of films on the topic of the lesson, books and articles for further independent study of the topic, etc.).
The first of the courses lasts 5 hours, and the second - 8, so you will have something to see and listen to for quite a long time.
2. Alpina
Great news for book lovers - the Alpina publishing house has decided to become one of the free services for the period of quarantine and has opened free access to a selection of books on a variety of topics. Here you can find a "Brief History of Drinking", and a guide to healthy eating, as well as a book on when healthy eating can harm, and a biography of Shakespeare, and many other useful and interesting books.
The catalog will be open until the end of April, all books from the collection can be downloaded for free to your reader, read on the website or in the application for Android and IOS.
1. GOG.COM
Taking care of the safety of its users, the GOG.COM game store invites them to stay at home and immerse themselves in the game world instead of watching the sad news about the coronavirus. And to make the immersion as deep as possible, users have access to 27 games at once.
In fairness, we note that they were free before. But before they had to look out one by one among the many paid games, but now they are collected in one place, which will save GOG.COM users a lot of time.