In the extraordinarily unlikely event they're not lying, it's that they're not lying *yet.* Blink and you'll miss the change.

Since this and other recent articles about DDG are about their browsers, not the search engine directly ... nah I can't even finish that. Even if we don't have direct reason to say their search is tainted no matter what browser, I'd like a better alternative already. Too bad such doesn't seem to exist.

Eh ... they care about maintaining the appearance that their shitting on home customers (treating them as beta-testers for corporate customers) is accomplishing anything useful. That's kind of like caring about some of their customers.

And here I was starting to think MS had finally, properly committed to continuing the beatings until morale (and uptake numbers) improved.

Goddamn, I can only see a negative ROI from this maneuver.

Lowtax banning anime on SA was THE direct cause for 4chan being created. /goons will herald the end of the world. //goons have calmed down over the years, but still.

"It became necessary to destroy the Twitter to save it." But, after destroying it, we should just piss on the ashes and bury it.

It is good to see that the fine upstanding people at One Microsoft Way are taking a stab at properly labeling their malware now.

If issues are as bad as described, well, I don't know about "crippling" but that certainly sounds like a giant hairball of annoyances. Which, well, is a wonderful description of how Windows UI has been sauntering downhill since the release of Win8.

No, they're malware. Not consistently. Not always. Just often enough anymore. It's been literal decades since you could blindly trust a keygen or crack based on group name attached or where you downloaded it. Sadly, A/V vendors have this unfortunate tendency to mislabel the stuff that isn't really a problem, which only muddies the waters, yet still the world has changed. Update yourself and deal with it.