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.
Bing, uh, has it’s uses. IYKYK.
Don’t think Bing has been good for that for some years no?
Pretty sure he’s talking about using bing video search for porn.
Bing’s fine in general. Meanwhile any time I get curious and use Google, if I have to go deeper with anything past the first 2 results, it will be absolute garbage.
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
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I mean in their defense, fuck Microsoft with a rusty nail, and this system was basically designed for exploitation.
You sound like part of the reason they gutted the thing, then.
I stopped doing this a few years ago but the system was flawed from the ground up. The fact that they did nothing to this kind of abuse it mind-boggling. No one actually used this the way it was intended to be used.
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
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.
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.
Bummer, I was going to check this out too
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