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
Good, let them fight each other to the death. In the meantime, we need to make sure we’re all on the same page for reviving anti-monopoly laws in the USA.
Which means us Firefox users can have some popcorn 🍿
That is until they reach us. I hope they don’t.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-13/firefox-maker-mozilla-is-cutting-60-jobs-after-naming-new-ceo
Someone from Airbnb and Ebay is running the show now. There is gonna be an enshitification speedrun on firefox coming.
I guess it’s time to panic
Firefox users were too smug. This is the universe knocking them down a peg.
Kinda sad that they don’t want us to be unique from them.
Well fuck.
Years ago I would have been pissed. But Google has gotten so bad that I don’t have a problem with MS annoying people to get off of Google.
Chrome is worse now? What did you experience?
My main browser is Firefox. My secondary is Chrome. I’m still :) with Chrome as a secondary.
Chrome is great if you stay in Google’s ecosystem. But Google has been adding extensions for their own services at such a rate that it was the reason MS gave up and had to adopt Chromium for Edge.
Google has been doing embrace, extend and extinguish for years now.