SOT: Bing

To my annoyance, although Chrome is my browser, Bing keeps trying to gatecrash the party. I have tried that Startup apps menu in the Task Manager and cannot find any Bing to disable. I have also tried Manage Extensions in Chrome and there is no mention of Bing redirect there.

How can Bing appear if I am using Chrome?

Edge was/is the MS browser but now based on Chromium/Google Chrome.

Bing is the MS search engine.

Try disabling Edge rather than Bing.

Also in the Chrome settings configure anything other than Bing as your search engine.

Thanks but msedge is already disabled in the Startup and the search engine in Chrome is set to Google. Bing just keeps trying to gatecrash.

Scott snipped-for-privacy@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote

It is possible to set your default search engine in Chrome.

Bing is a search engine web site, Chrome is a web browser.

You can set Chrome's default search engine to Bing if you want. Much as you could set edges default search engine to Google.

Edge is the MS web browser that comes loaded in every version of windows. Now windows will let you change your default web browser so that web links open in the browser of your choice, however they have also baked edge and bing into various bits of windows as well.

So if you click on an article in the windows news and weather app it will load it in edge regardless of what you have told it. If you let the windows "search" bar search the web, it will use bing, and if you click on a result it will load edge.

(A practice that was recently ruled illegal in the EU - and they have been forced to offer a way of removing this illegal tying of services in the EU)

In what circumstance?

If you want to banish access to Bing the web site completely you could make a entry in the hosts file to point it to localhost...

Graham. snipped-for-privacy@mail.com wrote

Those too stupid to work out how to use something better.

Nope.

Android still does and not just in the installer.

If you use the search field in the taskbar (possibly other places too) windows ignores all your browser preferences and shoves edge+bing down your throat ...

I have uninstalled a lot of M$ crap, particullaly edge, one drive, bing, etc:

It's the most popular search engine in the US.

Google is my default search engine but when I open a new tab, in Edge, MS 'helpfully' place a Bing search box in its centre, which I ignore. I've turned off all the other clutter that MS wish to populate a new tab with.

There's your problem, you are using Edge.

No it isn't: Bing has 7.7% market share:

You probably need to set your homepage to something other than the default one. If you set it to

Theo

I opened Chrome from the desktop and first page to appear was something to do with Bng cooking. Normally Google opens at the Google homepage so I assume it is set to Google and Microsoft is somehow gatecrashing.

I still cannot work this out. Every setting I can find is set to Google Chrome. It only happens sometimes, as though MS is trying to impose advertising. Can I approach this from the other end and block MS?

MS have created a new URI scheme: "ms-edge://" that is the signal to fire up the Edge browser and its associated cruft.

...also it feeds of clickbait

Even in Windows 10 & 11 you can install as many different browsers as you want. Once you have found one that you like it's possible to uninstall those that are causing you problems. Just an option to consider although it is not a quick solution.

Why not use duck duck go or Start page. I don't use Chrome, but in most browsers these seem to stick unlike Google. Most of these are in fact Google but with options added to look without you getting tracked. Brian