Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
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Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#2Bing makes it clear when a site is promoted by prepending "ad" to the search result. Other search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google do the same.
It is near impossible for Bing to manually review every advert so perhaps it would be beneficial for search engines to provide a way for users to report rouge promoted links, similar to how YouTube allows you to report its sidebar ads.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#3The title of this article is deceptive clickbait.[1] The problem has nothing to do with the Edge browser, it has to do with search results returned by Bing, which happens to be Edge's default search engine. If you have a new Windows 10 PC and want to download Chrome, how else could you do it besides "using Microsoft Edge to download Chrome"? So "stop using Edge to download Chrome" is not useful advice. Better advice would be to check the URL and certificate information before downloading anything from any site.
And the problem seems to have been fixed. When I search for chrome download on Bing, the top result is https://www.google.com/chrome.
[1] Successful clickbait, too. Writing an article with "download Chrome" in the title apparently got them the top spot in Bing's "News about Chrome Download", so anyone who searches for "chrome download" will see this article near the top of the search results page. Very clever.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#4This has been happening for so long that it's hard to believe Microsoft is not aware of it.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#5The title of this article is deceptive clickbait.[1] The problem has nothing to do with the Edge browser, it has to do with search results returned by Bing, which happens to be Edge's default search engine. If you have a new Windows 10 PC and want to download Chrome, how else could you do it besides "using Microsoft Edge to download Chrome"? So "stop using Edge to download Chrome" is not useful advice. Better advice…
It's not irrelevant. Bing is what Microsoft chooses to use a default search engine. Edge does not warn of a malicious website. Chrome and Firefox do.
This has everything to do with Edge.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#6Bing makes it clear when a site is promoted by prepending "ad" to the search result. Other search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google do the same. It is near impossible for Bing to manually review every advert so perhaps it would be beneficial for search engines to provide a way for users to report rouge promoted links, similar to how YouTube allows you to report its sidebar ads.
Really? If I go to the site in Chrome, it tells me it's a malicious site. If they can do this, then I can't see why they can't handle it when serving out advertisements.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#7Bing makes it clear when a site is promoted by prepending "ad" to the search result. Other search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google do the same. It is near impossible for Bing to manually review every advert so perhaps it would be beneficial for search engines to provide a way for users to report rouge promoted links, similar to how YouTube allows you to report its sidebar ads.
If you roll with pigs, you are bound to get dirty , if you promote links for profit, your reputation may suffer.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#8Bing makes it clear when a site is promoted by prepending "ad" to the search result. Other search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google do the same. It is near impossible for Bing to manually review every advert so perhaps it would be beneficial for search engines to provide a way for users to report rouge promoted links, similar to how YouTube allows you to report its sidebar ads.
> It is near impossible for Bing to manually review every advert
Why? Are there hundreds of ad campaigns being created per second?
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#9This has been happening for so long that it's hard to believe Microsoft is not aware of it.
Given the malware Google's ads also ship, which Googlers here on HN have tried to have removed only to return an hour later, suffice to say malicious ads are an industry pervasive problem, and the solution is to kill the online advertising market. Aggressively.
In fact, when I tried to look for a specific class of malicious ads (looking for "mapquest") recently, DuckDuckGo was even as bad as Google, it was Bing who gave the least malicious results. But obviously they've failed here.
Automated advertising platforms have been overrun by malware and no automated solutions are going to fix it.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#10Using browsers to download software should never have become the standard practice...
Linux got it right with the built-in package repositories. Unfortunately Windows and Mac have never really adopted the super-easy "apt install this" style.