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Rigged. They won't hand it out to some rando.
That’s the thing. You have to be some kind of influencer with followers on state backed social media to win.
Someone like MKBHD, to use one example, isn’t going to talk about the guy on Lemmy with no followers who won. He (or someone like him) might talk about a Twitter user with thousands of followers who won so they can cross traffic.
Microsoft and Google want you to use their browser so they can sell your data. Your data, on its own, isn’t worth paying you anything for. So they won’t do it. What contests like this pay for is organic exposure. Which people like us can never give them, which is why we don’t win things.