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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So they literally have to pay people to use bing?

[–] [email protected] 13 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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