There's a cursed way to get a free Game Pass subscription or grind Diablo 4 battle pass tiers: Bing searches

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I had no idea that I had Microsoft Rewards points. You probably do, too: You get them by doing Bing searches and other gratuitous Microsoft web activities and can redeem them for things like Amazon gift cards, Diablo 4 battle pass tiers, and PC Game Pass subscriptions.

Be warned, though: To get anything good, you have to do a lot of Bing searches, and probably not for anything you actually want to know about.

If you're using Windows 11 and you're logged into a Microsoft account, you can find your Microsoft Rewards points total by clicking on the search field in the taskbar. Your current points balance appears next to a medal icon at the top of the menu that opens, and clicking the medal opens rewards.bing.com—in Edge, of course, regardless of your default browser setting.

There, you can earn points by doing activities like searching for «holiday cookies recipes» on Bing and then redeem those points for gift cards, apparel (like a hat that says «Microsoft» on it), subscriptions, and in-game stuff for games like Sea of Thieves and Minecraft. You can also get points by buying stuff in the Microsoft Store and playing games on Xbox consoles and doing Xbox Game Pass quests.

Microsoft Rewards are new to me, but they've been around for years, and there's a whole subreddit dedicated to optimizing point acquisition. I just earned 30 points for taking a quiz about home cleaning tips, and another 10 for answering a poll about whether I've ever been to a Scandinavian Festival. (I have not.) I got 50 more points by going to some Microsoft Rewards informational pages and then doing a 10 question quiz about cats. I have 140 points in total right now.

I'm a long way from turning these tickets from the world's least-fun arcade in for