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.

Every trick Microsoft pulled to make you browse Edge instead of Chrome

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    8 months ago

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

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        8 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.

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          8 months ago

          Those pop up pages that prevent you from seeing the underlying page. It doesn’t happen as often anymore but it’s nice to have a way to remove them

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      8 months ago

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

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        8 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.

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          8 months ago

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

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            8 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.