They could get me to use Edge and Bing if only they’d stop making them so effin annoying. Why not try that novel marketing strategy??
I’ve been doing Bing Rewards for a while now. In the beginning, at the Gold level, I was able to earn 30 points a day with searches. Then they changed it to 15 points a day for PC search, and 10 more points for mobile searches. I have a mobile phone, but it’s just a plain, ordinary one...no online connections, so I’m not eligible to get the extra 10 points a day. I’m a Mac user, which means I use Safari or Firefox for my browsers. There is no Mac version for their Edge browser, so I’m assuming I’ll just be getting the same number of points per day that I’ve been accruing all along. I like Bing, especially their daily home page pictures, and they honor the holidays, including Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
I just got a computer with Edge. Icon is similar so I thought it was Explorer at first. I had to set it to display clear page. Otherwise it loads with pages and pages (and pages) of photo stories and ads.
Also, I’m seriously missing adBlock. Webpage ads are placed so close to the right (what DO you call that up/down bar thing?) that it’s hard to keep the cursor on an extended scroll down without clicking an ad. There’s an adBlock Plus coming for Win 10 but the first release has weird issues.
So, other than quick or travel use, this user-unfriendly “Edge browser” computer will probably collect dust for a while.
Meh, I’m not going to use any of that crap anyway, bribe or no.
To any script-programmers out there: Can you think of a way to automate this, or have a bot control Edge so it clicks its way through an unending list of links?
One has to wonder why it is so important for MS to grab market share for Edge. Assuming it’s not just management ego, it has to be for tracking and building a database of user preferences for marketing.
Saved for later. Thanks
I use duck duck go.