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Pop-up encourages use of particular search engine

Company

HP

Date

Nov 11, 2023

Industry

Smart Devices

Description

I sometimes get pop-up windows on my HP laptop that ask to trigger some updates to HP’s Windows overlay. This time, clicking Next several times through the updates brought me to a final screen where the “Next” button was replaced by “Try Bing search engine” using the same style. This has potential to trick users into agreeing to Bing Terms and Privacy Policy and switch browser search engines to Bing without clear agreement.

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