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Microsoft Bing Rebates is pushing annoying pop-up ads, and ad blockers don’t help – Good Gear Guide
Microsoft and Bing are returning to the bad old days of aggressive advertising. Now it’s massive popup ads promoting Bing Rebates.
Microsofts strategy of using pop-up advertising to promote new features and services has returnedand ad blockers can do nothing against it.
I saw two examples of this on Monday morning using Microsoft Edge and Bing. One I found acceptable, but a second went way over the line. That latter Bing ad promoted Microsofts new Bing Rebates program. It seized a good third of a Chrome windowyes, with ad-blocking software installed and activeand then retreated, lurking at the bottom of my window until I clicked…
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