It looks like they've fixed it but a few months ago I googled "Microsoft Customer Support" and the top results were all to obvious scam sites.
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
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t use Edge, but it’s unfair to characterize Edge as a “downgrade” for all people. The average user cares much more about being able to annotate webpages (for example) than having access to the latest web standard. So the “upgrade” you’re talking about is only from the point of view of the web developer, which is usually the wrong way to think about this kind of stuff. If you go far enough along the path of prio…
>The average user cares much more about being able to annotate webpages You grossly overestimate what the average user wants to do. The average user doesn't even know the difference between browsers, rarely (if ever) uses bookmarks, and considers printing a web page an advanced task. Annotating webpages is something that a tiny sliver of power users will use.
Are you from 1999? You sound like you're from 1999. It's 2018, and a significant chunk of users are younger than the browsers we use, and especially people still in the education system often use browsers - and computers in general - in fairly fancy ways.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
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YouTube red spam is obnoxious. Same with apps that ask for a review and the options are "not now, or not right now" I'm never going to leave a review.
Funny, when an app is obnoxious about asking for a review, I always oblige. My review will of course focus mostly on my most recent experience with the app, which was "getting annoyed with an obnoxious pop-up". I hope that this discourages app authors from doing that.
Presumably they just dump your review.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#204I 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…
I always hate this Softnic crap. Softonic and Pinterest are cancers in SERPs.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#205Call me paranoid, but every time I install software on Windows [1] I do the following dance: 1. Search for the name of the software on Google [2]. 2. Open link to software in separate tab. 3. Open Wikipedia link (usually on the same SERP) for software in separate tab. 4. Compare domain name from direct link with the domain name from the Wikipedia article. 5. Open another tab and type domain name manually. 6. Find dow…
I do this too. Perfectly normal.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
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Me too. I've made at least $50 in amazon gift cards from bing rewards.
I made $0 in Amazon gift cards from DDG, but I did retain my privacy. If you got $50 in gift cards from Microsoft, you can be sure they profited more than $50 from you.
Duck duck go made more than zero from you...
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#207Call me paranoid, but every time I install software on Windows [1] I do the following dance: 1. Search for the name of the software on Google [2]. 2. Open link to software in separate tab. 3. Open Wikipedia link (usually on the same SERP) for software in separate tab. 4. Compare domain name from direct link with the domain name from the Wikipedia article. 5. Open another tab and type domain name manually. 6. Find dow…
I do this too. Perfectly normal.
Except people who are more tech-illiterate don't do it, and we're the minority here. It shouldn't be normal.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#208For the all the shit Google taking lately, we should give them a big shoutout when their own cloud pages and other product pages rank way down in their own Google search ranking.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
I made $0 in Amazon gift cards from DDG, but I did retain my privacy. If you got $50 in gift cards from Microsoft, you can be sure they profited more than $50 from you.
Duck duck go made more than zero from you...
..but not so much that they can afford Amazon gift cards worth $50.
Re: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
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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…
Would you like to try YouTube Red for 30 days?
No thanks (again and again) :-)