Quick google search tells me that is about a buck fifty.
Maybe if they paid me that for every minute I use their browser, I would give in.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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Use a better search, googol sucks and was never any good.
Ok google sucks and people should not use it, but claiming it was never any good is just rewriting history because you dont like the present
When I read things like this, I struggle to understand the economic logic behind it.
How much money does Microsoft really expect to get from more people using Edge instead of Chrome? I mean, both of them are provided free of charge anyway. Does the control over the default search engine or the advertising technology or something like that really bring them more money than these "rewards" cost?
Because they can rob more data from you, make shareholders more happy and push in your throat more ads
It all seems even more ridiculous when you realize all of these browsers are just flavors of chrome and MS is pretending it doesn't gather enough data from windows 11 telemetry.
It's about profiling the user, logging his activities and searches, certainly bring more money than these "rewards".
They want your tracking data for AI, so bad. Also they added payments into the browser itself and they really really want you to use that.
Can someone take the points and switch back 😄
That sounds like a scam. lmao
Oh boy, Points. I certainly enjoy the "real cash value" of Points. If only I were paid in Points instead of Money
I love that the browser choice alliance is made up of a single browser and they're bitching about MS trying to push another flavor of chromium on us. This whole situation is a circle jerk.
Not only Chromiums in this alliance, also Geckos there.
10 Create new user
20 set edge as default
30 profit
40 goto 10
run
your code looks really basic
10 GoSub CreateNewUser
they need data to train their AI models
They got me at work. Sharepoint, which we've transitioned to for everything, fights you tooth and nail every time you try to use it with another browser. I fought edge out of spite for about a year, but I'm tired dog. Wish they'd pay me instead of berating me to death.
I wish my workplace was using Sharepoint... I mean we technically are.
Our intranet homepage now says, "Please access quicklinks through Microsoft Teams under Teams -> All Staff -> General" - so you click on that link, it opens Microsoft Teams, you navigate to the channel where the 'quicklinks' tab is, you click on the 'quicklinks' tab, it says the page is not supported in Microsoft Teams, you click on the tab and open the link in Edge and LOW AND BEHOLD, you get a Sharepoint page with the 'quicklinks'. At least I'll never die of hypothermia because this stuff keeps my blood boiling. It's soooo stupid.
