Microsoft accused of malware-like tactics, again, in attempt to push users onto Bing
Microsoft accused of malware-like tactics, again, in attempt to push users onto Bing
The Verge's Tom Warren was one of those who feared his PC had been infected when a pop-up appeared asking him to switch his default search engine...
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Edge* is fucking shitty, to boot. It keeps serving my grandma fucking scam ads, how in the ever-loving motherfuck is that a thing in an official Microsoft browser?
14 2 ReplyAre you expecting a browser to filter search results for you? The blame should go to the search engine, and you should be using an ad blocker to boot.
4 0 ReplyYou're conflating search results with ads
2 1 ReplyGoogle and Bing do as well.
3 0 ReplySure but the person you replied to did not
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[sass-reduced because having written the wrong damn thing, it's my fault]
2 1 ReplyHuh, I've never actually used Edge, so I assumed you were talking about Bing search results, since you said Bing served your grandmother ads.
2 0 ReplyShit, I just noticed, that is what I said. And here I'm being all sassy. My bad - I did mean Edge of course.
(Edge really is fucking awful though, so you're lucky, I guess)
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Bing is not a browser.
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