I personally perceived freebitcoin only as a faucet when I first learned about this site. I remember freebitcoin had a lot of advertising banners, and I guess this type of advertising was one of the main sources of its income at that time. So the fact that freebitcoin managed to grow from a regular faucet to a gambling site with a multimillion audience is really impressive.
That's actually true, freebitcoin is one of the longest running faucet out here on the crypto market and by far the most successful one. If you're one of the users of freebitcoin way back, you'll know how high the coins they are giving out as it was based on the price of bitcoin. I remember that the highest jackpot was around 1 bitcoin and I'm not sure if anyone was able to receive that.
Anyways, as far as I know, fb has always been a gambling/faucet platform since the multiply dice game has always been there.
That's basically how I use freebitco.in as well, that's the point of this place for me. I make some income from both affiliates and also from faucet and even wheel etc etc, mainly from affiliates. That's "my" money technically, even if it is not in my wallet or anything and it's in here, if I ever wanted to withdraw it, I totally could. But do I do that? Nope, I just end up gambling it away, every single time as well. That's mainly because there is a good amount of fun to have here and I have that fun anytime I want from the income I have here.
If you get some money and you want to gamble it here, it's definitely one of the best places to do it. I still say that design part needs rework, but the rewards are just too huge to give up.
The same goes for me way back, even after earning certain amount from referrals and hourly faucet, I mostly gamble it all before doing any withdrawal transaction on my account. I guess, the reason I mainly do this is because the value of the coins I earn back then is almost the same as what we earn on the current freebitcoin faucet which is why I don't mind gambling it anytime but the difference is that you will be able to withdraw back then even with low value coins since transaction fee don't cost much before.