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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)

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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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[-] anlumo@lemmy.world 178 points 5 months ago

Isn’t that a textbook antitrust violation?

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 109 points 5 months ago

USA companies don't give a shit about antitrust anymore. Look at Amazon and Apple, the only places they get bit for their behavior are the European countries.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

the only places they get bit for their behavior are the European countries.

Even then Apple has been barely bothered. The DMA is the first big test, Apple has clearly not complied in spirit, lets see if that’s allowed and nothing changes.

[-] thantik@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

Yes but Microsoft learned once you start lining the pockets of the right people, nothing happens to you!

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The richest companies can probably afford the richest lobbyists

[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but when they get fined 0.004% of their revenue with each violation then it's hardly even worth worrying about. Legal penalties are basically minor business expenses to these companies - like buying toilet paper for the office bathrooms.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Isn’t that a textbook antitrust violation?

Apparently not. Google is nagging Edge users who visit Google services since years to switch to their "secure web browser with frequent updates" (implying that Edge doesn't get any, despite being the same Chromium thing as Chrome). (Firefox is exempt because FF defaults to Google Search)

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

BWAHAHAhahahahaaaaaa! Aiiigh! Oh! Oh man. snif. Haha ha. Ahhhhhh fuck.

Yes. But micro$oft was declared a monopoly 20+ years ago and . . gestures to everything

what, you want reform? It didn’t have the votes.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 months ago

Microsoft and the government:

[-] Pohl@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Trust is when two or more companies secretly collude against the interest of customers. That is what you would find in a textbook anyway. This is more an abuse of monopoly.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Except it's Google with the monopoly now.

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