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How I used a bot to farm Microsoft rewards points
29/04/2024
Operators, a roblox game currently in a demo, is going to be a paid release, whilst I've got the money to buy the game, I'm still going to try to find out a way to get the game for free or get Robux to effectively buy the game for free.
Did you know! Microsoft has a rewards scheme to try to trick people into using their search engine more just so that they can collect our data. Using this rewards scheme you can get 100 robux for 1500 points. To try to get these points automatically, I got this Python script by charlesbel and followed its steps to just set it up on my laptop. However, since there can be issues with Microsoft banning you, I'm using a free VPS from Oracle as a HTTPS proxy as well as using multiple MS alt accounts just to keep myself safe.
How to:
- Download Google Chrome
- Create a microsoft account (Maybe multiple).
- Download this repository: https://github.com/charlesbel/Microsoft-Rewards-Farmer
- Download the requirements for the project with:
pip install -r requirements.txtin the terminal where the current directory is the folder where you installed the repository. - Create a file called
accounts.jsonand fill it with:[{"username": "[email protected]","password": "password"}] - Optionally if you want to run it with a HTTP proxy you can do:
[{"username": "[email protected]","password": "password", "proxy": "http://user:pass@host:port"}] - Run the script with
python main.py -v - When the bot gets stuck on the login screen, just open a new tab go to https://login.live.com and login with the account you want to use. (The reason why this has to be done is because bot is dumb).
- Close the browser and terminate the script.
- Run the script again with
python main.py - Wait...
- Profit
As of writing this, I am still alive and Microsoft and Roblox has yet to show any aggression. I'm sure I will be fi...
Oracle Cloud Free Tier is honestly the worst thing I've ever signed up for
26/04/2024
Trying to sign up for the Free Tier on Oracle is a nightmare in of itself, whilst it's iffy that you have to sign up with a credit or a debit card, it took me like 5 months just to create an account because every time I tried to create the account my request was denied due to apparently "invalid payment details". Even when I did eventually manage to create an account it was with the same banking details!?
On top of that, there is the issue of trying to get servers from them in the first place, the best selling point for their Free Tier is the VM.Standard.A1.Flex where you can have up to 4 OCPUs (Apparently 2 vCPUs) and 32GB of RAM for free seems like its just perpetually "out of host capacity".
To hopefully try to fix this, I have a script on one of my physical servers that runs every 2 minutes that uses Oracle's API to try to create a VM. I have had that script running for the last 3 months and it still hasnt happened. I have this script logging everything too, it is now currently...
tldr; Oracle Cloud Free Tier fucking sucks and is a scam trying to get you to use their paid products.