Remove Ask as a search engine option since they are malware authors
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93m4qau...@gmail.com,
Jan 26 2018
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.119 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: N/A What is the expected behavior? Ask is not an option at chrome://settings/searchEngines unless you manually add it, because they create and spread malware (notably the Ask Toolbar and a plethora of different Mindspark adware). What went wrong? Even though they are evil, their search engine is available as an option at chrome://settings/searchEngines. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 64.0.3282.119 Channel: stable OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2) Flash Version:
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Jan 30 2018
Able to reproduce the issue on reported chrome version 64.0.3282.119 and on the latest canary 66.0.3334.0 using Windows 7. As the issue is seen from M60(60.0.3072.0) considering it as non-regression and marking it as Untriaged. Issue is not seen on Windows 10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Mac 10.13.1, it is specific to Windows-10. Thanks!
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Jan 30 2018
correction to Comment#2, this issue is specific to Windows-7
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Feb 26 2018
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Feb 26 2018
Inclusion in Chrome's search engine list is not generally gated on other activities the companies behind those search engines may undertake. |
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Comment 1 by krajshree@chromium.org
, Jan 29 2018