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Free 200pts + up to 150pts/mth by Web Searching Using Yahoo!7 Qantas Search Engine or Toolbar

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Free 200pts + up to 150pts/mth by Web Searching Using Yahoo!7 Qantas Search Engine or Toolbar
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tonester on 19/06/2013 - 13:14 au.yhs4.search.yahoo.com (324 clicks)
Last edited 13/08/2014 - 18:01

http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/partners/toolbar

To qualify for the 200 bonus points offer, members must conduct a valid search using the Toolbar or Yahoo!7 search engine by 23 June 2013.

You can earn 1 point per valid search via the Toolbar or Yahoo!7 search engine, up to a maximum of 150 points per calendar month.

To earn Qantas Points through the Qantas Frequent Flyer Toolbar you must download the Toolbar at qantas.com/qfftoolbar, install it in a compatible browser, login to your Frequent Flyer account via the Toolbar and conduct a valid search via the Toolbar or Yahoo!7 search engine.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer - not Safari
You cannot download the Toolbar to the browser on your mobile phone or tablet device.

You will earn points on valid searches on the Yahoo!7 Qantas Frequent Flyer Search Page provided you are logged into the Toolbar at the time of the search.

A valid search is a genuine search that is carried out through your normal, every-day search activity and not searches that are nonsensical or conducted via artificial, forced, mechanical, or automated methods. If your search is not deemed to be a valid search then you will be notified via a pop-up message.

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  • slowmo on 19/06/2013 - 13:15
    +6

    eeks. people still use toolbars? does yahoo ever learn? did they not change CEO recently?

    are they retards or something? can't they just get people to login to their yahoo search WEB portal before doing searches?

    • sahat on 19/06/2013 - 15:16

      Or do like what Microsoft done, encourage people use IE so they can log what you search and send it to their BING search engine

  • leeroys_dad on 19/06/2013 - 13:20

    sweet! a toolbar with free popup messages! why i never

    • tonester on 19/06/2013 - 13:22
      +2

      http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/partners/toolbar-FAQs

      As a result of installing the Toolbar will I start receiving pop-up advertising messages?

      No, you will not receive any pop-up messages that contain advertising. The only messaging that you will receive through the Toolbar will be to notify you as to whether you have conducted a valid or invalid search.

      • goatus on 19/06/2013 - 14:35
        +1

        Will the Toolbar install spyware, adware or malware on my computer?
        No. The Toolbar is free from spyware, adware and malware.

        …further down the page…

        Will Qantas collect my search data?
        Qantas will collect details of any search and web browsing from your use of the Qantas Frequent Flyer Toolbar and Yahoo!7 Qantas Frequent Flyer Search Page when you are logged into the Toolbar. We will collect this data for the purpose of marketing targeted and relevant products, services and offers we think will be of interest to you.

        Isn't that a definition of spyware?

        • antzz on 19/06/2013 - 15:37
          +2

          Wow that is cool… as Qantas will collect the search data, how about we tell them what we think in the search box..

          Why Qantas SUCKS? — this will be a valid search right?
          i wonder if all they got is this sort of rubbish Qantas branding will they continue on spyware on us

  • grimace3 on 19/06/2013 - 13:41

    Thanks!!

    • tooblue on 21/06/2013 - 11:34

      But no, thanks.

  • Turd on 19/06/2013 - 13:54

    Damm 200 points… which is like $200 spend or $400? hmmmmmmmmm worth it?

  • MrLeE on 19/06/2013 - 13:58
    -2

    I find this pretty funny. FF Points are normally given away for free. So were installing / registering for something that we dont want, to allow these guys to make us use a search engine we dont want, to get something that is normally gotten for free with a condition.

    Pretty smart move, but desperate.

  • tanoshiiki on 19/06/2013 - 14:10
    +1

    Flybuys have done this too.

  • cuteseal on 19/06/2013 - 14:24
    +1

    Installed it for Chrome and it does 3 things:
    1. Change your homepage to a Yahoo/QFF previous search page (similar to the default chrome home page)
    2. Changes your omnibar to default to Yahoo/QFF search
    3. Installs a small button on the right of the Omnibar. Clicking the button will show a separate search box, with status (points earnt) and also access to settings etc.

    For chrome there is no ugly "toolbar" like with IE or Firefox.

    If you want you can set #1 and #2 back to what you were using previously and it becomes pretty unobtrusive - you just click the button to access their search/status box.

    • Phaded on 19/06/2013 - 14:33
      +3

      Uncheck the make yahoo my default search option to skip 1 and 2 during installation. Small button is the only thing I have in my chrome

      • cuteseal on 19/06/2013 - 14:52
        +1

        Ah cool… wasn't sure whether they required that at install to meet their T&Cs. :D

      • hashtagbargain on 19/06/2013 - 15:03

        I doubt if it'll be bringing you any QFF points then

        To earn Qantas Points through the Qantas Frequent Flyer Toolbar you must download the Toolbar at qantas.com/qfftoolbar, install it in a compatible browser, login to your Frequent Flyer account via the Toolbar and conduct a valid search via the Toolbar or Yahoo!7 search engine.

  • marquise on 19/06/2013 - 14:26
    +1

    I'd rather buy a few pallets worth of taco seasoning

  • ProggerPete on 19/06/2013 - 15:02
    +6

    200 QF Points is worth roughly a dollar. Maybe $2 if you are feeling generous. They'll need a bigger carrot than that to get me interested…

    • cuteseal on 19/06/2013 - 15:14
      +2

      True, but another poster said previously that would take about $200-400 of spending to earn that amount of points. For 2 mins of work, not bad.

      • PlagueistheCheap on 19/06/2013 - 15:40
        +12

        My wife can do $200-400 of spending in well under 2 mins.

        • cuteseal on 19/06/2013 - 23:08

          But… wha… ok you got me. :D

  • hashtagbargain on 19/06/2013 - 15:08

    Why is the toolbar download a EXE and not a CRX?!

    • cuteseal on 19/06/2013 - 15:12

      After it installs the EXE it then opens up chrome again and downloads a CRX.

      Not sure why…

  • auscompgeek on 19/06/2013 - 21:32
    +1

    Surely someone's going to open the toolbar and defeat the system completely.

  • ssander on 20/06/2013 - 17:54

    Since they capture the search data, I wonder what they will make of my first search using the toolbar. Just hope the cops don't turn up.

  • BigLeviathan on 20/06/2013 - 18:46

    Let's automate the search and get heaps of points….

    • tonester on 20/06/2013 - 19:11

      A valid search is a genuine search that is carried out through your normal, every-day search activity and not searches that are nonsensical or conducted via artificial, forced, mechanical, or automated methods.

      • slowmo on 20/06/2013 - 21:39
        +1

        but what if i just like searching for bacon all day?

        • tooblue on 21/06/2013 - 11:40

          Bacon without eggs? What a waste!

        • tonester on 21/06/2013 - 16:47

          nonsensical :)

  • mskeggs on 21/06/2013 - 10:19

    I just got 200 points for not totally deleting IE when I stopped using it 10 years ago!

  • tooblue on 21/06/2013 - 11:39
    +1

    Two questions:
    1. Is it easy to remove completely, not like other malwares?
    2. Is PRISIM / NSA monitoring me? As a foreigner to the US?

    • freaklfc on 21/06/2013 - 12:31
      -3
      1. you can always uninstall the browser the plugin is attached to.
      2. if you are not doing anything wrong, then there is no need to be worried about PRISM/NSA/NASA/Aliens etc
      • nicksinternet on 23/06/2013 - 07:55
        1. Servers are located in USA. US Govt has access to it. You are sending your info there. They only read foreigners personal and private information so its ok, the people who count are protected.
        2. I'm not doing anything wrong, the US Govt seems to be pretty good at that (note to CIA reading this, apologies I am not a terrorist, just an ignorant common foreigner who doesn't understand and is not as equal a human being as a US citizen).
  • korda on 22/06/2013 - 15:58

    I made one search before uninstalling: flybuys

    Take that!

  • Adz81 on 22/06/2013 - 16:09
    +2

    This just strinkes me as a rubbish attempt at gaining market data… Including the 200 points for sign up, and assuming you earnt the full 150 points a month (personally, I'm not sure that I would?) you'd stand to make 2000 points for the first year, and 1800 points in the second year… Which would give you a total of 3800 points, or just enough for a $25 JB HIFI gift cart (3750 points)… OR roughly .7 of a cent per search. I can't see a way to make this a good win for anyone…

  • skinny on 22/06/2013 - 17:52
    +2

    and you sign off on getting spammed..

    http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/qant…

  • peter000 on 23/06/2013 - 07:26
    +2

    A mean offer and another tacky effort from the big "Q"

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