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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

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Post by discreditable »

OliverJones wrote: post #95

It's possible to install Google Chrome on a Windows box with chocolatey, the Windows answer to apt and brew. But, still, Microsoft's browsers still aren't good. In my workplace (where we do some complex cross-browser work) they're an enormous nuisance to development and QA. I wish Edge were far better than IE, but they're both quirky. Firefox and Google Chrome ordinarily work predictably. Safari has a few quirks, Edg…

Chocolatey is very handy but has a few warts. It can't tell if the underlying app has self-updated. When Chrome autoupdates after choco install, the next time you run a choco upgrade, it will unnecessarily upgrade Chrome again.

Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

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Post by partiallypro »

jamieweb wrote: post #10

Using 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.

Yeah, I mean obviously what the average users wants it to have to type in apt get commands and finding the slug to get the right package instead of clicking a link. Very intuitive.

You know how Google & Firefox could easily help fix this? List their browsers in the Mac and Windows Store.

Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

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Post by nickpsecurity »

greenyoda wrote: post #3

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…

You're making it sound pretty difficut. Just tell them to type chrome.com into address bar. Redirects to Chrome download site on Firefox. Many lay people will actually try this on their own since they assume (term).com will often work. A dangerous assumption but wouldve worked here.

So, we just spread the word to use the actual URL when possible (been doing that) instead of search and that chrome.com works for Chrome.

Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

saagarjha wrote: post #100
fjsolwmv wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft could just as well ship Firefox with Bing as the default search. The problem is Bing.

Why would Microsoft do this?

> Why would Microsoft do this?

Because Google Chrome is a greater threat to them than Firefox, so promoting Firefox helps them even if it hurts Edge, as long as it also hurts Chrome.

Also because if they preload Firefox with Bing as the default search engine then Firefox users may leave it that way.

Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

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Post by saagarjha »

sbr464 wrote: post #110
saagarjha wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would I download this, without using Bing in Edge to download the installer for this?

Just go to the site directly? You don't need to search for it.

So why not just do that for Chrome directly?

Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

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Post by quickthrower2 »

a3n wrote: post #34
sparkpeasy wrote: post #21

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No one uses Bing.... except every user of Windows 10 by default

Indeed. Any poster on HN should consider that, relatively speaking, we are the no one.

Except me, I am on HN and I use Bing.

Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

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Post by ryacko »

fjsolwmv wrote: post #74
beager wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Microsoft could just as well ship Firefox with Bing as the default search. The problem is Bing.

They could, but it looks like an in-house browser is the biggest boondoggle that Microsoft has.
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