When I was with uploading I made a little more with PPD than I could with PPS.So when I started with bitshare I started in PPD.But after making 18 sales in the first 5 days and getting nothing for them,I changed to PPS.
I'm averaging 3 sales a day.I made my first payout request on the 6th & I received it on the 8th,via paypal.
So,yes,bitshare pays.& you will make money if you have files people want.
If you like PPD I can tell you that you will not get the same download numbers at bitshare or any other host that uses re captcha as you did at a host without it.
Re captcha has to be entered in manually by the downloader.So it will keep your totals down,but you will get more sales than you did at places that didn't use re captcha. & for a host,maximizing sales is how they make money.
I think some uploaders and bitshare would benefit from a mixed program.But that's just my humble opinion.
I'm sure bitshare wants feedback on the new desktop manager.I like it but I've noticed a couple bugs.No matter what I set the upload speed to,it goes full speed.
Then today I had several files that reached 100%,then reset and started over.They did it several times.I uploaded those same files with web upload and they were fine.