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Microsoft is pushing Bing pop-up ads in Chrome on Windows 10 and 11. Latest version of Windows and The Verge It was reported on Friday that the ad encourages Chrome users (in bold) to use Bing instead of Google Search. “Chat him GPT-4 for free in Chrome! Chat hundreds of times every day with Bing Al,” the ad says. If you click “Yes,” the pop-up will install the “Bing Search” Chrome extension and make Microsoft’s search engine your default.
on advertising[はい]When you click to switch to Bing, a Chrome pop-up appears asking if you want to change your browser’s default search engine. A pop-up will ask, “Did you intend to change your search provider?” “The ‘Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome’ extension has changed your search to use bing.com,” the Chrome warning says.
Directly below that alert, another Windows notification alerts me, as if I was expecting a Chrome popup. “Wait, don’t change it back. Doing so will turn off Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome and prevent you from accessing Bing Al with GPT-4 and DALL-E 3. To continue using Microsoft Bing ,[保持]please choose.
Basically, users are faced with two companies: one company trying to pressure them into using an AI assistant/search engine, and another company trying to leave it as default (which they would probably want to do if they had installed Chrome in the first place). ) is embroiled in a pop-up war between . Big Tech’s battle for AI and search supremacy is turning into a nasty virtual shouting match right before the eyes of users trying to browse the web.
There appears to be no easy way to prevent ads from appearing.
Microsoft reportedly confirmed the authenticity of the pop-up with the following statement: Latest version of Windows and The Verge, he nonchalantly depicts this move as an opportunity for users. “This is his one-time notification offering users the option to set Bing as the default search engine in Chrome,” a company representative wrote. “For users who choose to set Bing as their default search engine in Chrome when signed in with an MSA. [Microsoft account] It also increases the number of chat turns in Copilot and chat history. ”
Reminding how freedom-friendly its intrusive ads are, it added, “We value providing choice to our customers, so you have the option to ignore the notifications.” Engadget sent an email to Microsoft requesting independent verification, but the company did not immediately respond. We will update this article if we receive a response.
Latest version of Windows described the ad as a result of a “server-side update” and said the ad was not part of a Windows update.Instead, the outlet assumed it was linked to BCILauncher.EXE or BingChatInstaller.EXEtwo processes that Microsoft reportedly added to “some Windows systems” on March 13th.