Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts

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Post by nickcw » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 9:41 AM UTC

Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts
theregister.com

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Post by theyeenzbeanz » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 10:25 AM UTC

As soon as the copilot garbage was installed on my computer without asking , I made sure to quickly update group policies and registry to disable it. Just yesterday it popped up the dialog asking me to try out copilot again. Just another case of windows “forgetting” settings.

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Post by holoduke » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 10:29 AM UTC

I hate Bing. Its a supid name and the interface is stupid as well. I dont like it. Stop showing me ads.

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Post by roschdal » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 10:30 AM UTC

Linux

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Post by perihelions » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 10:39 AM UTC

Duplicate of another story on the front page,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39742058 ("Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows")

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Post by bamboozled » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 10:40 AM UTC

theyeenzbeanz wrote: post #2

As soon as the copilot garbage was installed on my computer without asking , I made sure to quickly update group policies and registry to disable it. Just yesterday it popped up the dialog asking me to try out copilot again. Just another case of windows “forgetting” settings.

Why do you even bother running Windows with this crap going on ?

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Post by actionfromafar » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 10:40 AM UTC

Windows aint that bad? But then, I'm occasionally reminded that if you don't have a corporate IT dept. jealously vetting every update, and instead use the shivers Super Happy Consumer Pachinko Edition Windows, things are very different.

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Post by msoad » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 10:44 AM UTC

Unrelated but why Bing knows about GPT 4.5 Turbo?

https://www.bing.com/search?&iOS=1&auth=1&referrerig=E8B41E8...

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Post by lolc » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 11:10 AM UTC

The cash cow is shitting on its meadow.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 11:12 AM UTC

bamboozled wrote: post #6

theyeenzbeanz wrote: post #2

As soon as the copilot garbage was installed on my computer without asking , I made sure to quickly update group policies and registry to disable it. Just yesterday it popped up the dialog asking me to try out copilot again. Just another case of windows “forgetting” settings.

Why do you even bother running Windows with this crap going on ?

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