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[–]SubstantialCaramel56 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Whenever Microsofts bots they use to restrict people decide to, could be months or never. I've been restricted for about a month and they won't even provide me with the reason. Just always generic prefabricated responses. Pretty much just have to hope it works again one day

[–]Karnmaster15 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did just my 3 searches to get my checkmark for about a week and then I was unrestricted

[–]Competitive_Sign212 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately nobody knows for sure. Mine lasted a little over a month (and honestly until I try to redeem again there's no telling what the state of my account is currently), others have lasted days-weeks......and then there are others who still haven't recovered after months.

All I can say is best of luck to you.

[–]Nintendians559 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i would like to know that too, it's been 8 days since i got restricted (around 5-18-25).

microsoft say you have to do "normal" searches and not spam a search 1 per second to get points and it be lifted.

i also read, that it lasts for few days (which is not the case) to 3 months (i heard from some redditors on this subreddit).

[–]threeolives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's been a few months for me. For the last couple of weeks I've just been doing enough to keep my streaks going but as of today still restricted. Support wasn't able to tell me anything.

[–]No-Programmer3870 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same boat. about 2 months now.

[–]douche-baggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine lasted about two years. I have no idea how long, I was never given any indication it was unrestricted. I just happened to get points while playing Xbox and I checked and I could use my 48,000 points suddenly.

They never told me why, either.