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Re:Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet? by antisthenes on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:14PM (#12902002)
This might be the best argument for using an adblocker indiscriminately.

For whatever reason, the web got to this point where non-technical people get infected within minutes, whatever advertising revenue is lost by content creators isn't worth my headaches providing tech support to family members and friends.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet? by imadfy on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:26PM (#12902654)
It's truly pathetic that Google is selling ads that respond to a search for "Chrome" with malware.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet? by andrewf on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:32PM (#12904121)
to google for "chrome" on internet explorer

Is google being used as a generic verb here, in relation to Internet Explorer's default search engine?

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Re:Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet? by totalZero on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:47AM (#12918254)
I prefer to bing things on duckduckgo.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet? by chipperyman573 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:18PM (#12906007)
Bing is selling ads for "Chrome" searches, not Google. IE/Edge default to Bing.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet? by baby on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:27PM (#12906041)
(for the story my father used google.com to search for "chrome")
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