Ever since the 15 second cool down and “start earning after first 3 searches” rules were implemented, I haven’t been able to earn any search points via Opera GX, my main browser.
I reached out to Microsoft Support, but other than an initial response asking me to provide screenshots (wasn’t sure how that would help?), they’ve never responded to me since. That was back in December 2023.
To this day, the bug remains. I’ve cleared cache and cookies, but no change. I’ve now noticed that even the mobile edition of the browser is also not earning points.
The thing is, this was all working just fine before. If I use Chrome/Edge on my PC or phone, it’s fine. Same with Chrome on iPad, the Bing search points also register there, too.
I prefer Opera GX, and (at least on Windows), it’s a Chromium-based browser, as is Edge, so I don’t get why Bing search points aren’t working. If I do any of the activities/quizzes, I can get the points no problem. So, it’s strictly a search issue.
Any ideas?
I’ve been having this issue as well, I use Opera GX exclusively and I can only earn points when searching on Edge.
I tried reaching out to support and was told, basically, “don’t worry, after a couple of searches it should work!”
I’ve searched so many times since and, no, not a single point lol.
I genuinely thought I was crazy, but I’m glad I’m not alone.
Coming back to this 9 months later, After I was just using edge for my rewards searches.
After installing the rewards extension, Opera searches count, but only when they are done THROUGH bing, like the search bar there. Typing anything directly into the browser search bar doesn’t count.
If you want a lot of bing points, just do the daily set on chrome or edge, then search a bunch of random stuff until you get three. Do this long enough and you will get lots of bonus points for a streak. While I use Opera GX, I just use chrome to do all my bing searches for points until I max out for PC points that day.
i have the same problem, i hope there’s a fix soon
Opera gx from when I used it, had a built in vpn. That might be why they did that. I do prefer it too.
I haven’t gotten past the 15 points for mobile for the last 4 days. Won’t work after that. One day it didn’t even give me that.
No, it’s definitely something on their end. OGX worked just fine with Bing search points throughout 2023 for me, until about November or December. Not sure why the change and to this day still no different.
Then it’s not an isolated issue, then. This at least makes me feel less crazy, but it sucks either way lol.
Interesting point. Though I don’t even use the VPN. Not to mention that it was working before, so very odd that it just stopped all of a sudden.
I know at least in my time using it, YouTube blocked it. But yeah it’s odd for all of the sudden