Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged::Microsoft appears to be nickel-and-diming users and fans of its Microsoft Rewards program, which gives “frequent-flyer” points that can be traded in for gift cards.
This was the only reason to use Bing for a long time
It still is, but it was too.
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
there are six ducks out there, and they all want sun chips.
And Voss, those thirsty bastards.
Bing, uh, has it’s uses. IYKYK.
DDG does just as good!
Failed for me, even with Safe Search off. Same results.
I see a lot of genitalia with DDG’d search
I remember using this (cheating a little bit with VPNs and proxies so I could claim the rewards like 20 times every day, because they are separate in every country) to get some Xbox giftcards
I also had ~15 Microsoft accounts and I put them all in a Microsoft family so I could transfer points from one account to another, it was really fun lol
People like you are why normies can’t buy pax tickets. This isn’t simmering to be proud of, you should be ashamed of abusing a system.
For ones where they give you a code for a non-MS service (eg LoL or Overwatch tokens) couldn’t you bot-farm this and then literally just sell the redemption code?
If you actually started selling these, they would probably shut that down pretty quickly and maybe even sue you
Obviously. Don’t get caught.
Meh. This seems relatively minor, and geared towards people purposely gaming it. Which, yeah, I’ve done at one time or another. Lately I’ve just been getting the points from searching. It might take a couple extra days to get enough for each $5 gift card. Oh well.
I’m most disappointed with the cooldown between searches. The lowering of points was expected as they were cutting back everywhere else.
This headline reads like blogTO.
I mean I’ve bought 2 Overwatch passes using those points. I couldn’t justify paying cash for skins to myself, but MS rewards points I could rationalize. But I basically fire up Edge/Bing to collect the points and then go back to Firefox & DDG. It was obviously not sustainable for them.
Let’s make a replacement program for Free software. The more points you get, the more Free software you can install.
That makes the software not free though 😥
