Submitted 6 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
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.
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
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”.
Microsoft Rewards isn’t a “nice thing”.
You should 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.
They’re giving out made up points and then letting you trade them for copies of digital files. They’re not really losing much.
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
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 by 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’m most disappointed with the cooldown between searches. The lowering of points was expected as they were cutting back everywhere else.
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.
Bummer, I was going to check this out too
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ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
This was the only reason to use Bing for a long time
db2@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
It still is, but it was too.
beerclue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bing, uh, has it’s uses. IYKYK.
Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t think Bing has been good for that for some years no?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
DDG does just as good!