Users are reporting seeing Microsoft Edge pop-up ads while browsing on Google Chrome. Appears not in the pop-up notification window but in c:\windows\temp\mubstemp and is digitally signed by Microsoft.
“We are aware of these reports and have paused this notification while we investigate this unexpected behavior and take appropriate action,” communications director Caitlin Rolston said in a statement. ledge,
Reddit users have been trying to figure out why they’ve been seeing these pop-ups for the past three months. The company is reportedly known for using multiple prompts to prompt users to switch from Chrome to the Edge browser, even with pop-ups appearing on the Windows taskbar. Microsoft tried to force Windows users to switch to Edge with a full-screen message after every update.
Recently Microsoft began taking over Chrome searches in Bing to provide a similar response to the ChatGPT-4 chatbot, which created a full Bing page to completely take over the search results for Chrome. .
