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Rael Hornby

This Microsoft app thinks Google Chrome is NSFW (Not Safe For Windows)

Graphic showing Google Chrome's Incognito Mode icon inside of the Google logo.

Microsoft has a long and underhanded history of trying to gently subvert users away from Google Chrome on Windows.

In an effort to push the Edge web browser and its Bing search engine to Google's userbase (with all the tact of a used-car salesman), Microsoft has injected pop-up ads, tricked users with a fake Google Search page, flagged other browsers as errors that need to be fixed, and potentially broken a Chrome feature by blocking it through a system update. Oopsie.

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