I've read you can make a few bucks in your free time by promoting new coins pre-exchange-acceptance by completing their bounty programs for free coins in their current or future wallet.
How do you find these in the forums? I had to scroll through dozens of pages of tons of text/links/images (blind in one eye makes it even harder) and I found one in an hour which wasnt well setup."
I invested in one with actual ETH last year that has 0% return so far but it did get listed on an exchange.
How do I find free bounty programs I search 'bounty' in Chrome in the Altcoin announcements and don't find any.
You can go to the altcoin section in the announcement section. You can find bounty announcement there, you just need to read through the forum and their white paper so you can choose which project you will support. Just register and follow the bounty rule to get free coins after their successful ICO.