I mean… you went to Bing to search for a program. That’s something that a new or inexperienced user would do, and Bing tried to help. It gave a direct link to the software (a link which I just tested to be working and safe on a virtual machine), it instructed how to do it using the official website, and then as a third option, it gave a link to the website.

I know that a lot of people will automatically assume a site like Softonic is loaded with malware (and I don’t have the time to refute all of those claims) but the download they provided of the software was just a mirror of the official download and came with no added malware, spyware, or adware. Use at your own risk, but OP is pretty clearly fearmongering in an attempt to get people to give them internet points.

There are several at the top of the picture, I think Mittens will be just fine.

I thought it was a shitpost.

Imagine calling yourself a journalist and publishing this story.

If I have a bowl of rice, and one of the grains is actively trying to end my way of life, I don’t mind when someone shoots at it with an assault rifle.

We aren’t running out of humans, and we don’t live in a democracy…

That isn’t a false statement at all. They didn’t say they stopped selling it in 2014, only that it was released then.

I read and write, so I imagine I look like the tip picture, but really I look like the bottom.

Too many over the years. I’m long lost.

That’s how they get you, these… cats. Devils more like it. It’s all purring and mewing, and then Bam! one of them hits you with a head nudge. By then, it’s all over. Soon it’s the expensive food, and the water filters, and the fancy kitty litter. Before you know it, they are asking if their brother can crash on the couch. You know, just a for a few weeks. He’s got an idea, and it’s gonna be huge, like Facebook huge, but he just needs a little bit to get him off the ground. A year later you are laying in bed at 4 AM looking back on the choices you’ve made, wondering how it ever got to this point, and you feel a sharp pain in your gut. It’s one of those furry devils come to ask for more food, or to warn you about the spider it thinks it saw in the hallway, or to tell you that the vase above the TV is haunted. It doesn’t matter. You love them, anyway. You’re all theirs now. Under their spell. They call it love, but it’s spelled t-o-x-o-p-l-a-s-m-o-s-i-s.

I’m not trying to catch anyone. I’m just calling OP out as a liar. I don’t give a shit how OP or anyone else feels on the Internet feels about me.

Weird, because I surely installed windows 10 before that date, turned off the search bar, and have definitely installed that update, but the search bar never popped back up for me. Maybe I’m just lucky.

Yeah, well that’s the difference between us. I don’t believe OP, and I think this is just a troll. You can believe whatever you want, but I’m calling OP a liar liar pants on fire.

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Nah, just calling out bullshit when I see it.

I’m not sure how you messed up, because this has never happened to me, and I stay up to date.

Weird, they don’t have “My most recent attempt at a 401(k)” in there…

Only if you are blowing shit up.

This is an AI generated article and has no basis in reality.

Splitting the difference, then.