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Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the only thing Bing is good for is for finding porn.

[–] MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Not so much anymore. Bing and google are pretty shit nowadays (for most any searches). I've been getting more accurate search results with duckduckgo, but I'm still looking for a search engine with better results.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

duckduckgo just uses bing on the backend doesnt it?

[–] drawerair@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Duckduckgo –

We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

I use Duckduckgo for pic searches. I can easily go to the link of the pic. On the other hand, Google takes me to the site containing the pic.

Another concern of mine re Google is –

Say I'm searching re a car. The search results are riddled with carmechanic.com, carexpert.com, moderncar.com, carstoday.com and others. Idk if those are legit. There's been a lot of misinformation on the Net so I've been careful.

[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

It does. I use yandex in my Firefox porn container now.

[–] 31337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Kagi is pretty good, but expensive. I like that listicles are put in their own small section so you can ignore them. You can boost, pin, demote, or block results from certain domains. You can create and quickly switch between domain list presets to search only specific sets of sites. The only thing I don't like is the exerpts below results don't bold what you're looking for like Google does.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

mullvad leta and brave search are pretty good about being private

Mullvad leta is only accessible by using the mullvad browser extension with mullvad VPN on the same device.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

I have noticed that recently...meaning a few minutes before I typed this.

Google has sucked for a long time now and now bing isn't even good for finding porn anymore.