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by antisthenes 3510 days ago
This might be the best argument for using an adblocker indiscriminately.

For whatever reason, the web got to this point where non-technical people get infected within minutes, whatever advertising revenue is lost by content creators isn't worth my headaches providing tech support to family members and friends.

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It's truly pathetic that Google is selling ads that respond to a search for "Chrome" with malware.
to google for "chrome" on internet explorer

Is google being used as a generic verb here, in relation to Internet Explorer's default search engine?

I prefer to bing things on duckduckgo.
Bing is selling ads for "Chrome" searches, not Google. IE/Edge default to Bing.
(for the story my father used google.com to search for "chrome")