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So yesterday my work OS install got hosed and needed to be reloaded.    
As part of that process I launched Edge for the one thing it's good for and searched for "Firefox".
At the top of the bing page was an item marked as an ad. Mozilla's official download page.
Immediately below that was a second item marked as an ad. Microsoft's pitch begging users not to stop using edge.
A minute later I repeated the above process searching for "Chrome". I got an equivalent pair of ads.
I'm not sure what's more pathetic: That they resorted to buying ads in Bing to try and retain user share, or that having done so they let Google and Mozilla outbid them for the top slot on the pages. 
Edit: Added screenshots of binging for Chrome in 4 browsers[^] The IE11, Edge, and Firefox ones were done via the search box, I didn't care enough to figure out how to Bing directly in Chrome, so I did that one by going to the website first.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 22-Feb-17 10:18am.
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I tried with the same search with FF and there's not a single beg, so I believe it's part of Edge and not Bing.
As for the ads, I hate them anywhwere.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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An advertising delivery service hard-coded into the browser?
How much lower can they stoop?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With "An advertising delivery service hard-coded into the" operating system.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: An advertising delivery service hard-coded into the browser?How much lower can they stoop?
Uh, you've never heard of google or chrome?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't use google, even on my phones (reverted to factory version, and never updated or opened), and I don't use chrome.
Next question.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm sure you can show ads depending on user agent, without having to hard code anything.
Jeremy Falcon
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Probably, but it's not an avenue I'd ever explore, because I treat my customers with respect.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Respect... what a concept, eh? 
Jeremy Falcon
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Things become more precious with rarity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Searching for Firefox or Chrome in Edge's search box/address bar returns nothing but downloads links for these respective browsers, as would be expected.
That's because my default search engine in Edge is DuckDuckGo.
Therefore I have to conclude it's a Bing thing, and not an Edge thing.
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Somehow, on a similar note:
Where I live, there's a bank, the "TD BANK", who is amazingly generous with their dark green pens. They are in use absolutely everywhere, it seems.
Well - they are now:
I took a hand full and left them at some of the desks at a nearby branch of the Chase Bank in case the chained pens were missing.
The Devil made me do it, and I'm glad
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It has to do something with Edge... Searching with Bing on IE11 shows no begging...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Also a reply to @den2k88
I just tried multiple browsers and got identical giant begs in IE and Edge. In Chrome and Firefox I didn't get the same oversized keep using edge beg ad in the 2nd spot, instead I got a smaller edge ad as the top spot.
Binging for Chrome[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It may have something to do with the severely blocked network here were I work, I don't see anything!
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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In that case it may be connected to W10... But do not expect me to install it just to see...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, but ... the MS ads have a picture!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I don't get anything like that, even if I use Edge and Bing. Could it be that they would get slapped in the face for such an ad in Europe?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Dunno, my level of caring falls well short of screwing around with location spoofing VPNs...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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LAD THERE IS ANY RUNG TO CLIMB?
At low tide there are 14 rungs above water on the ship's side ladder. The rungs are 15 cm apart from each-other.
Toward high tide the water rises 8 cm each 6 minutes.
After 2 hours and 25 five minutes, how many rungs will still be above water?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Insufficient data!
Which way is the tide going?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Sorry... The same way the wind is blowing...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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PeejayAdams wrote: Which way is the tide going?
South.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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None, 5 minutes in, a torpedo took out the ship.
veni bibi saltavi
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