The option to avoid the toolbar is deeply hidden in the printer setup program.

If you’ve gotten an HP printer recently, you’ve probably picked up the Bing Bar along with a printer driver.

Most of them also hijack your browser home page and try to change your default search provider as well. They are the result of sneaky deals to include the toolbars when you install something unrelated. The toolbars arrive by stealth when you’re not watching. I cringe when I see “My Web Search” or “GoodSearch” or “Inbox Toolbar” or some of the others.Īfter a while your Internet browser begins to crash and the space for web pages begins to disappear. There are also less legitimate companies whose toolbars barely pretend to have any useful purpose, with buttons that lead to pathetic advertising sites. “Search and explore with Bing and earn great rewards” using the Bing Bar, according to Microsoft. “Keep in touch with the people you care about,” claims Google Toolbar. Theoretically each one delivers useful services. Almost everyone accumulates toolbars that take up space at the top of Internet Explorer or Chrome or Firefox.

There is, however, a bit of advertising that you can control.

We invite some of them into our lives voluntarily – every time you do a Google search or check your Facebook page, you’re making advertisers very happy (and making Google and Facebook exceedingly rich). We are under constant assault from advertisers seeking a foothold on our computers.

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