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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.
Me too. I've made at least $50 in amazon gift cards from bing rewards.
Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
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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.
Browsers are banned from the Windows Store. For 'security' reasons. It's tricky to get win32 apps in general into it, too.
No they aren't, the UC Browser is listed in the Windows store (third most popular mobile browser in the world,) along with some others. Microsoft has been very willing to help companies list Win32 apps in the Windows store, especially large ones.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#143I remember when several years ago I typed "download Flash" in Russian Google, there were non-official sites in top results. Now Adobe's site is the first result.
Also I tried to experiment a little. If I type "download flash player" in Russian, official Adobe site is only on the 3rd position [1]. The first and second results are "adobe-flash-player.ru.softonic.com".
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%...
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#144FWIW Google also returns malicious chrome ads. My father had a brand new laptop and the first thing he did was to google chrome. He got a bunch or malware by clicking on the first link.
It's serving it up today. Fourth link on my Google results for "chrome" is for softonic which is malware
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#145This is another reason why the ad business is flawed.
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Ok but there's no way to know that without searching. Unless you have one of these https://mobile.twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/844278365590...
I mean, you could guess. The name even hints at it for anyone aware of the `.net` tld. That's not a great solution, since many people are barely aware what at url is, but I think it should still be one that you and I (as people who are) use. Similarly the article is fixed by guessing that google chrome is probably at chrome.google.com (also chrome.com), firefox is probably at firefox.com, cnn is probably at cnn.com,…
and using news as a third-level domain is a poor choice: Lynx always thinks I'm trying to open an NNTP connection :(
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#147The 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…
I remember having great fun some years ago when my friend's Internet Explorer somehow broke in the Win95/98/ME days.
So I tried to guess ftp servers from the DOS prompt.
I think I managed to connect to ftp://ftp.opera.com and install Opera.
Update: looks like it still works today. Anyone looking for a 2004 BeOS version?
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Yeah, picking on the upgrade wording is tricky, and cuts both ways. It has a common, semi-specific meaning with computers, but has also been used for far longer in the more general way it's used here. If you say "I upgraded my stereo system", I would consider the chance you meant that to imply you got better versions of the same devices from the same manufacturer to be essentially nil. I'm that respect, it may seem m…
If you said you upgraded your stereo, though, I’d expect you bought something pretty clearly nicer, eg by moving from a pair of PC speakers to a professional hifi. I wouldn’t expect that you’d have moved from one well-respected hifi manufacturer to another with different tradeoffs. Admittedly IE is pretty awful, but Chrome and FF are effectively comparable; “upgrade” is too strong a word for switching between them.
> I wouldn’t expect that you’d have moved from one well-respected hifi manufacturer to another with different tradeoffs.
I think you either have more respect for manufacturers and how they advertise, or have a higher estimation for people's ability to successfully wade through marketing bullshit than me.
Here's a question, is replacing your stereo cables with gold plated monster cables an "upgrade"? What do you think the average person thinks.
> Chrome and FF are effectively comparable
that depends quite a bit on the criteria used to judge them. If you value your privacy, I don't think the are comparable (as a synonym for similar) at all.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#149The 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…
> 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 "bing" issue, not an "edge" issue.
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#150This one is especially bad, but there's a major problem in general. I have to constantly warn people not to "google" for printer drivers or video drivers, etc, because the links they'll get from any search engine are almost certain to be malware.