Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows again
www.theverge.com
The pop-ups are back after a brief pause.

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11.

Windows users have reported seeing the new pop-up in recent days, advertising Bing AI and Microsoft’s Bing search engine inside Google Chrome. If you click yes to this prompt, then Microsoft will set Bing as the default search engine for Chrome. These latest prompts look like malware, and once again have Windows users asking if they are legit or nefarious. Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that the pop-ups are genuine and should only appear once.

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    • Dehydrated@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago
      1. This only applies to the mobile app
      2. They stopped doing this in 2022
      3. LibreWolf comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, which blocks all sorts of ads, trackers and other malicious JavaScript
      • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Ublock Origin does not block “malicious Javascript” reliably. You need NoScript for that, and a opt-in approach. Block everything, unblock what you need, hope its not malicious.

          • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Flash should be possible to disable about:config as its legacy technology.

            Could you explain the overlay remover?

            Noscript is the only good addon for blocking javascript and allowing only some parts for specific origins.

        • Dnn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          6 months ago

          While I actually do that, you cannot seriously recommend it to anyone. Hardly any site works without Javascript nowadays.

          • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Yes thats why you have the button to click on. I also need to allowlist basically every site I visit.

            There should be some way to share such a list, to reduce the manual work.

            I highly recommend manually enabling Javascript.

            • Dnn@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Sometimes it’s great. If people complain about paywalls, for example, and you didn’t even see the pop-up.

              • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
                01·
                6 months ago

                And sometimes it prevents sites from working, because paywalls that are avoidable by blocking the cover are deprecated and nowadays real solutions are used. This means such size will just break.

                Ublock can also remove overlays, and I am sure it you add more lists they will be blocked by default.

                Having less code run in your browser is always recommended.