The Verge's Tom Warren was one of those who feared his PC had been infected when a pop-up appeared asking him to switch his default search engine...
  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    1 year ago

    Are you expecting a browser to filter search results for you? The blame should go to the search engine, and you should be using an ad blocker to boot.

    • amio@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      [sass-reduced because having written the wrong damn thing, it’s my fault]

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        Huh, I’ve never actually used Edge, so I assumed you were talking about Bing search results, since you said Bing served your grandmother ads.

        • amio@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          Shit, I just noticed, that is what I said. And here I’m being all sassy. My bad - I did mean Edge of course.

          (Edge really is fucking awful though, so you’re lucky, I guess)

    • HughJanus
      21·
      1 year ago

      You’re conflating search results with ads