The Microsoft Rewards 15-minute search cooldown has now gone live in even more countries: https://t.co/6gpbM4JA3Y
— TrueAchievements (@TrueAchievement) December 13, 2023
It's strange, quite alot of people are saying the change is live now in the US, including in this article, but I've yet to get the 15 minute lockout pop-up. Maybe it only happens if you try to spam the searches too fast as a bot protection measure? I've been doing the thing where you wait to see the Rewards program ribbon in the upper right corner of Bing fully turn blue, which takes about 5-7 seconds, the moment that fully turns blue is the moment that the points for the search register and you can click on the next icon in the trending searches.
Hopefully this 15 minute lockout stays gone for me, 15 minutes per 3 searches would be just the f-ing worst, as it would mean needing to remember to come back to Bing 10 times over the course of the day in order to get all 150 PC search points, plus remembering to use bing search on mobile 7 of those times. And if the 15 minute lockout counts for both PC and mobile in the same 15 minute window, you're looking at 17 total times you need to use bing PC and Bing mobile throughout the day.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 13 December 2023
