{"id":164950,"date":"2016-05-13T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=164950"},"modified":"2016-05-13T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:27:39","slug":"most-online-tech-support-ads-are-scams-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/164950-most-online-tech-support-ads-are-scams-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Most online tech support ads are scams: Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech support scammers who advertise online will no longer have their ads displayed\u00a0on\u00a0Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bing Ads disallows the promotion of third party online technical support services to consumers because of serious quality issues that can impact end user safety,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/advertise.bingads.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/49352\/user-safety-policy-revision-global\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It said it wanted to create a\u00a0safe online experience for its users and advertisers, and scams like the &#8220;Microsoft Tech Support&#8221; call or online ad scam detracted from that experience.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft asked Bing users to report ads which they felt violated Bings advertising policies.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164812-microsoft-removes-windows-10-wi-fi-sense.html\">Microsoft removes Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/163875-what-it-takes-to-be-south-africas-best-microsoft-excel-user-here-are-the-tasks.html\">What it takes to be South Africa\u2019s best Microsoft Excel user \u2013 here are the tasks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech support scammers who advertise online will no longer have their ads displayed on Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":161606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,1938,37178],"class_list":["post-164950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-bing","tag-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164962,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164950\/revisions\/164962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}