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Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's make a replacement program for Free software. The more points you get, the more Free software you can install.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

That makes the software not free though 😥

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] RagingInside@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why we can't have nice things.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago

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”.