Microsoft is once again spamming Chrome users on Windows 11 with Bing ads, and the ads continue to look like malware.
Microsoft simply refuses to get out of its own way. When Windows 11 users made a fuss over a series of bizarre, malware-like pop-ups last year begging Chrome users to switch to Bing as the default search engine, Microsoft promptly paused them and claimed that they were the result of 'unintended behavior.' Less than a year later, similar pop-ups are once again plaguing Chrome users, and this time, Microsoft is much less apologetic about their emergence.
“This is a one-time notification giving people the choice to set Bing as their default search engine on Chrome,” says Caitlin Roulston, Microsoft's director of communications. “We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.” Of course, Microsoft does not give its valuable customers the choice to just turn off these weird, annoying ads altogether.
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