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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft Reward points

What the fuck is this?

[–] account_93@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You "earn" points by searching and doing daily stuff which you can redeem for gift cards/rewards.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So they literally have to pay people to use bing?

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's been that way for at least a decade. My dad used to use bing for reward points and was scoring an Xbox controller every 3 months or so.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No way ? that's a good ratio. I might just try automating Bing searches.

[–] LukeMedia@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately a lot of people have thought the same thing, and I believe they've cut down on that. Wouldn't hurt taking a brief look into it, though. However, the rewards points aren't as valuable as they used to be, I'm pretty sure.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Amazed@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Taking a page out of Brave Browser’s book. So brave.

[–] kboy101222@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Bing rewards has been around for 6 years longer than the brave browser has existed (2010 vs 2016)