Cloud mining or faucets?

I know next to nothing about this and wondered what your experiences are.

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Someone was talking to me about mining crypto with some service they shared with a couple of friends. This was a rig set up in a country where energy costs were low, so they could actually make a profit.

Now I know next to nothing about mining and found some sites pointing to Eobot, saying it's a cheap way to start mining (and it also contains a faucet). I signed up and that's about as far as I got. Then I started reading more.

All I've read so far is that mining is not a good investment. It gets increasingly difficult to mine, so you'll earn less and less. I already knew I shouldn't do it on my home pc, because energy costs would be higher than what I'd earn by mining. I'm not sure about the cloud mining thing though.

What are your experiences with mining or cloud mining? How/where do you do it and what's your advice?

Also, those faucets I keep hearing about give small amounts of crypto each day, right? What are sites you use for this? I'm just afraid I'll sign up for bad sites, riddled with malware and such.

Any advice or shared experiences would be most welcome!

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