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Warren saw a pop-up recently the was particularly pushy.

The prompt suggest switching your default search engine in Chrome to Microsoft Bing.

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The nature of the notification caused some, including Warren, to call it “malware-like.”

Microsoft claimed that the pop-up was not intentional, which is certainly a choice.

To me, two wrongs don’t make a right.

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The most recent notification is particularly upsetting because it isn’t even within Microsoft’s internet tool.

It’s not like someone searched for Google within Edge and Microsoft suggested Bing.

I don’t love that either, but it kind of makes sense.

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Edge and Bing are fine.

It’s okay for Microsoft to be proud of them and want people to use them.

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