This was the only reason to use Bing for a long time
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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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.
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 prefer qwant. Based in France. EU privacy law.
Works great for me. LOL, tried DuckDuckGo today for giggles, no joy. Even with safe search off, same exact results.
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
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.
No, this is why systems that aren’t rigorously designed to preclude exploitation like this simply shouldn’t be released. If flaws like this exist in the system, they will be exploited. It’s not on the users if they exploited a flaw, even if you say “please don’t exploit the flaw”.
There's a continuum between this kind of thing and, say, ransomware attacks. I'm not sure where the line should be drawn.
Microsoft Rewards isn't a "nice thing".
You sound like part of the reason they gutted the thing, then.
They're giving out made up points and then letting you trade them for copies of digital files. They're not really losing much.
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.
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 😥
It's not free, it's Free^TM
That's impossible because my time is worthless.
The points are measured in gigabytes of storage on your hard drive
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.
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.
I’m most disappointed with the cooldown between searches. The lowering of points was expected as they were cutting back everywhere else.
Bummer, I was going to check this out too