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Microsoft Wants To Pay You To Use Its Windows 10 Browser Edge (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report by The Guardian: Microsoft has a new browser. It launched with Windows 10 and it's called Edge. The company says it's faster, more battery efficient and all-round better than Chrome or Firefox. You can even draw on websites with a stylus. Trouble is, not very many people are using it. So now Microsoft's trying to bribe you to switch. The newly rebranded Microsoft Rewards -- formerly Bing Rewards, which paid people for using Bing as their search engine (another product Microsoft says is better than a Google product but that very few people actually use) -- will now pay you for using Edge, shopping at the Microsoft store, or using Bing. Users of Edge who sign up to Microsoft Rewards, which is currently US-only, are then awarded points simply for using the browser. Microsoft actively monitors whether you're using Edge for up to 30 hours a month. It tracks mouse movements and other signs that you're not trying to game the system, and you must also have Bing set as your default search engine. Points can then be traded in for vouchers or credit for places such as Starbucks, Skype, Amazon and ad-free Outlook.com -- remember, if you're not paying for something, you are the product.
Why don't you use duckduckgo or some other search engine that doesn't violate your privacy by tracking you?
Sucks for porn.
Not if you understand the wonderful DDG bang commands.
!bi my fetish
Search Bing images, the best porn image search, without having to go to Bing's eye-damaging front page. There are many cool ! commands, including !wa to search Wolfram Alpha, the world's best online calculator.
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I use Bing because I find it to be as good as Google or better for searches (especially image/video searches) and maps.
This is demonstrably false. As soon as you look for something even remotely rare where Google finds only 5-10 matches, Bing finds 0. I've done this experiment innumerable times.
Some examples:
Search for "tig welding" "cantilever" "bronze"
Google: 491000 results
Bing: 3150 results
Search for "botox" "cannabis" "dingbat"
Google: 1150 results
Bing: 58 results (none of which very relevant)
search for "ion scavenger" "fluorescein"
Google: 192 results
Bing: 23 results
Search for "osmosis" "peristalsis" "cowboy bebop"
Google: 34 results
Bing: 1 result!
Finally... search for "forked code" "bonded" "lap"
Google: 4 results
Bing: fuckall
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