• epat@lemmy.world
    111·
    6 months ago

    Ehh, time to play a bit of a devil’s advocate.

    “Bing with Edge”,

    1. it’s talking about search engine in edge
    2. a lot of malware will change your search engine, so that may make sense, for less knowledgeable people
    3. it won’t do anything on its own, you need to accept the repair step, for your default browser and/or search engine in edge to change
    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      t won’t do anything on its own, you need to accept the repair step

      Do you know what else works like that? Pop-up tech support scams. The target doesn’t have to do anything, but it’s become a thriving business in many poor regions (Kolkata, India is notorious) and a problem for moderately tech-illiterate users.

      I would even say that this anti-feature promotes bad personal security practices because the user may be more inclined to believe “your computer needs repair” pop-ups if the first one they encounter comes from a legitimate, trusted party.

      • epat@lemmy.world
        12·
        5 months ago

        Yes, it’s not a great security practice, and it probably should work more like "we’ve noticed you have randomly changed your search engine from google/ddg/bing/whatever to this ‘random search engine no-one heard about’’ instead of blindly reverting to edge and bing.

        It seems to be a tool for tech illiterates. A power user will know how to avoid malware, and remove it if they catch it.

        They should do a much better job than that, but helping people that don’t know what they’re doing is not itself a bad thing.