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Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This was the only reason to use Bing for a long time

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It still is, but it was too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

there are six ducks out there, and they all want sun chips.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And Voss, those thirsty bastards.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bing, uh, has it's uses. IYKYK.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Don’t think Bing has been good for that for some years no?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure he's talking about using bing video search for porn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I prefer qwant. Based in France. EU privacy law.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Works great for me. LOL, tried DuckDuckGo today for giggles, no joy. Even with safe search off, same exact results.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

DDG does just as good!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Failed for me, even with Safe Search off. Same results.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I see a lot of genitalia with DDG’d search