Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows again

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/15/24101887/microsoft-bing-popups-windows-11-google-chrome

The pop-ups are back after a brief pause.

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I have to use Edge on one of the work computers, and after a recent update it changed my search engine from startpage.com to bing, and informed me with a small pop-up by the search bar that they were changing my search engine for my protection because I might have accidentally set it to something other than their recommended bing.

cm0002@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

To the "Just use edge, it's as good as chrome anyways" people, this right here is one good example of why not to use it.

Fuck Edge.

TheSlad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

And its a horrible reason too, Chrome sucks! Only reason i use it is because they successfully assimilated me into their ecosystem over many years and i dont have the mental energy required to ungoogle myself. I have come to accept that i am google's bitch.

moody@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.

If that were true at all, they would have a pop-up in Edge asking if they want to keep using Bing or switch to another search engine.

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Not those choices.

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I am so glad that I switched to Linux around 4 years ago. What a bunch of wankers. This just really shows that they think your computer is their computer to do whatever they want with. Microsoft is a malware company.

suprchrgd@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

I made my choice by downloading and using Chrome. Microsoft can go F themselves. Choice, my ass.