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The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11.

Windows users have reported seeing the new pop-up in recent days, advertising Bing AI and Microsoft’s Bing search engine inside Google Chrome. If you click yes to this prompt, then Microsoft will set Bing as the default search engine for Chrome. These latest prompts look like malware, and once again have Windows users asking if they are legit or nefarious. Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that the pop-ups are genuine and should only appear once.

Every trick Microsoft pulled to make you browse Edge instead of Chrome

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[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

Easy Solution: Linux, Firefox/LibreWolf, DuckDuckGo

Fuck Microsoft!

[-] joe_jowhat@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Duckduckgo once allowed trackers from Microsoft

Source: www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3792HE

[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago
  1. This only applies to the mobile app
  2. They stopped doing this in 2022
  3. LibreWolf comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, which blocks all sorts of ads, trackers and other malicious JavaScript
[-] joe_jowhat@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

I have nothing to do with Librewolf at all. Don't confuse the two. I just said what Duckduckgo did with trackers based on a search agreement with Microsoft. BTW, this issue was initially exposed by others, not Duckduckgo itself.

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