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This has been happening for so long that it's hard to believe Microsoft is not aware of it.
The 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…
Ok, we've changed the title to the subtitle.
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But if you don't eat with filthy hands, you'll be putting antibiotic content creators out of business!
Also your immune system - which might be a bit of an issue.
The 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…
> 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. I think you're slicing this too thinly. This has everything to do with Edge, which is purposely configured to use a search engine that creates a liability for users. I would agree that "stop using Edge to download Chrome" is not useful and probably clickbait-y. A…
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> 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"? Simply visit Google.com, Gmail, Youtube or any other Google-site and await the Chrome-spam 100% guaranteed to appear in any browser not Chrome. My favorite one: “Upgrade your browser”. Not misleading at all, eh? How about “no”?
This is a tangent/pile-on, but this is not the only dark pattern google engages in. I absolutely do not want YouTube Red. Any software that respects the user would let you dismiss the offer with an option for “do not ask me again.” And yet, because the software is not respecting the user, YouTube asks me ad nauseum if I want to upgrade to YouTube Red. No. I do not. But I don’t get an option for no. There is something…
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Also your immune system - which might be a bit of an issue.
This metaphor is actually quite apt. If you aren’t accustomed to mentally filtering out ads from content, you may be more likely to be swayed by sponsored content and the like.
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Also your immune system - which might be a bit of an issue.
This metaphor is actually quite apt. If you aren’t accustomed to mentally filtering out ads from content, you may be more likely to be swayed by sponsored content and the like.
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chromium-browser is the one. Although on Ubuntu it's in the Universe repository, so you have to add the chromium-team ppa in order to get on-time updates. I will admit that Chrome/Chromium is one of the few things you can't easily get from the repos, on Ubuntu at least.
So how does that prevent a malicious PPA or repo that the attacker could push up in the search rankings? Just like the attacker here pushed up a malicious download page in the search rankings?
The security of the package repository system falls down when people add apt signing keys that are untrusted/unverified, which is what happens when you add a ppa in Ubuntu.
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Also your immune system - which might be a bit of an issue.
This metaphor is actually quite apt. If you aren’t accustomed to mentally filtering out ads from content, you may be more likely to be swayed by sponsored content and the like.
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Debian prioritizes being open source over being user friendly. Googling debian google chrome results in instructions for getting chrome on debian. I have 3 different distros installed on 3 different computers. Chrome is listed on all app searches.
> Googling debian google chrome results in instructions for getting chrome on debian. Yes. I know. I'm not picking on debian specifically here, fedora's dnf doesn't help you install chrome either. My point is rather the following: The GP asserts that the way to find (and subsequently install) software is "apt search `software`" and that way breaks down on exactly the piece of software that the article is about. You h…
Unfortunately Google Chrome is a bad example here as it's not available in most repos (since it's closed source).