Bing says it will ban Crypto-Related Ads By July 2018

[cryptosec.info]

Microsoft-powered search engine Bing has joined other internet giants in announcing it will ban cryptocurrency-related advertisements on its network by July 2018, according to an official blog post today, May 15.

According to the statement, the main reason for the company’s decision to ban “advertising for cryptocurrency” and “cryptocurrency related products” is the current unregulated status of cryptocurrencies, which allegedly increases risk for Bing’s users:

    “Because cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, we have found them to present a possible elevated risk to our users with the potential for bad actors to participate in predatory behaviors, or otherwise scam consumers.”

As the report further says, Bing Ads tool plans to fully implement the ban worldwide between June until early July.

Bing’s crypto ads ban is the latest move in a search engine and social media crypto-boycott, initiated by Facebook in late January of this year. Google announced an analogous crypto ad ban in mid-March, and Twitter confirmed its own ban soon after.

Last week, multiple mainstream media outlets reported that Facebook is reportedly “exploring” the launch of its own cryptocurrency.

Earlier in April, the co-founder of LinkedIn told Cointelegraph that the recent crypto ad bans are, in his opinion, most likely “temporary” and due to the current absence of clear crypto market regulations.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsofts-search-engine-bing-says-it-will-ban-crypto-related-ads-by-july-2018



I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

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[First77]

I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

I was on real estate website magicbricks.com and I searched for "panvel navi mumbai". Next day when I was on other websites, I was getting google ads for "magicbricks panvel properties". The same happened to me after my search on amazon.com for chairs, clothes etc..

Google tracking users & using it for adsense/google ads ??

[mk4]

I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

I was on real estate website magicbricks.com and I searched for "panvel navi mumbai". Next day when I was on other websites, I was getting google ads for "magicbricks panvel properties". The same happened to me after my search on amazon.com for chairs, clothes etc..

Google tracking users & using it for adsense/google ads ??

Google is always tracking you, whether you like it or not; and it makes it even easier for them if you use Google Chrome. That's why I personally suggest using Mozilla Firefox instead. It also uses significantly lower RAM, too!

[Skyonito]

sad how crypto is getting rejected by society

[RoftheN]

Twitter announced its ban in March 2018. Two weeks before that, Google blocked crypto and ICO ads, saying “we’ve seen enough consumer harm or potential for consumer harm that it’s an area that we want to approach with extreme caution.”

And now, Bing is following the same path. Everyday, I read some positive as well as negative news regarding cryptocurrency. I don't know if I should get happy or sad.

[First77]

Google is always tracking you, whether you like it or not; and it makes it even easier for them if you use Google Chrome. That's why I personally suggest using Mozilla Firefox instead. It also uses significantly lower RAM, too!

I am into internet marketing. No sales for 3 to 4 years having spent $1,500 on advertising on the internet and me surfing 800 sites daily for 6 to 12 months on top traffic exchange site.

Google is taking away 'internet customers" from its multi-billion dollars software.

[dado7]

A normal thing. And good too. Scammers must be stopped and crypto has to be regulated. Only that will enhance the trust in the system and bring in institutional investors.

[Sevarchik]

if this doing for stopping scam then it very good news, only scam prevent crypto going in to masses

[romero121]

What the corporate network around the globe making is simply the outcome of the fear. Corporate networks fear about the growth of bitcoin and the cryptocurrency network. Along with the same they fear about the scammers who might gain bad reputation for their venture. In this regard several leading service renders have come with the plan of banning crypto ads which will create an impact upon the growth.

[mindrust]

I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

I was on real estate website magicbricks.com and I searched for "panvel navi mumbai". Next day when I was on other websites, I was getting google ads for "magicbricks panvel properties". The same happened to me after my search on amazon.com for chairs, clothes etc..

Google tracking users & using it for adsense/google ads ??

Of course they do. What do you think? They track you with everything you are using. Your PC, Laptop, Cellphone and even with TV's now. (since they are smart TV's ) I remember there was news about that samsung TV's had a trojan inside which were turning on their mic and record you without you knowing it.

Probably not possible for your IOS devices but you can use adblock+ublock+ghostery+some other script blocker plugin on your PC/Laptop to prevent these trackings.

I especially find ghostery useful but they probably sell your data to someone else too so unless someone else gives me a better idea, I can still recommend it.

Every social media account you have (facebook, twitter, instagram, linked in, tumblr... anything) is only a data gathering/storing/analysis device for the US government.

Everybody's spying on you.

[mk4]

if this doing for stopping scam then it very good news, only scam prevent crypto going in to masses

Well if you read the article that's precisely the reason why they banned cryptocurrency-related ads.

“Because cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, we have found them to present a possible elevated risk to our users with the potential for bad actors to participate in predatory behaviors, or otherwise scam consumers.”

[LKing]

99% or more of the ads were scams, shitcoins and shitty ICOs, so I can kinda understand why they did it.

I wish they would just spend more resources on weeding out all the bad actors instead of a blanket ban on crypto though.

[winterblues]

Never heard of anyone who use bing for anything, btw.

[mk4]

Never heard of anyone who use bing for anything, btw.

Probably people who still use internet explorer on Windows XP and with hundreds of toolbars installed on their browser.   

[MrCrank]

I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

I was on real estate website magicbricks.com and I searched for "panvel navi mumbai". Next day when I was on other websites, I was getting google ads for "magicbricks panvel properties". The same happened to me after my search on amazon.com for chairs, clothes etc..

Google tracking users & using it for adsense/google ads ??

Google is always tracking you, whether you like it or not; and it makes it even easier for them if you use Google Chrome. That's why I personally suggest using Mozilla Firefox instead. It also uses significantly lower RAM, too!

Agree with you.
My opinion that is not good if I don't want tracking me..
I think it is not honest.
Chrome eat RAM

[First77]

Agree with you. My opinion that is not good if I don't want tracking me..I think it is not honest.eat RAM

Anything that I search on amazon.com, Next day when I was on other websites, I get google ads for amazon.com for the same products and the same brands/companies.

[Ilegendph]

Twitter announced its ban in March 2018. Two weeks before that, Google blocked crypto and ICO ads, saying “we’ve seen enough consumer harm or potential for consumer harm that it’s an area that we want to approach with extreme caution.”

And now, Bing is following the same path. Everyday, I read some positive as well as negative news regarding cryptocurrency. I don't know if I should get happy or sad.

In my opinion, as a bounty hunter, it should be an oppprtunity for us since ICOs will consider social media as big market for advertisement. The annihilation of these companies will give us more percentage of advertisement budget of ICOs.

[12tribes]

This is not the first time industry giants and big players have said this ind of thing yet it only strengthened the resolve of the crypto community.
Google, Facebook and others have done it with little or minimal impact to the crypto revolution. They are now inconsequential and so will bing be at the end of the road.

[Spontebob]

What the corporate network around the globe making is simply the outcome of the fear. Corporate networks fear about the growth of bitcoin and the cryptocurrency network. Along with the same they fear about the scammers who might gain bad reputation for their venture. In this regard several leading service renders have come with the plan of banning crypto ads which will create an impact upon the growth.

I'm really not into cryptocurrency advertisements. If Bing banned cryptocurrency ads to prevent users to commit bad actions like scamming, wouldn't be good? As long as bitcoin itself is not banned, I think this is for good.

[Xester]

The banning of crypto-related Ads were just all fuds. Though there was an actual announcement but I can still see many crypto-related ads in facebook, twitter and even in google. Also it will be the same with bhing and all of it was just a show and no implementation. These companies made some serious announcement so they can look cool by saying that they are doing it to protect their users but the real situation is that they dont implement it since they do not want to lose profit.

[LouVandetta]

It's no wonder that one by one they started to ban cyrpto related ads. At one time this got banned and then they were just following others, I think.
Above all, not everything are bad news, there are also good news. And it says : most likely “temporary”. We'll see about that.

[jseverson]

I was on real estate website magicbricks.com and I searched for "panvel navi mumbai". Next day when I was on other websites, I was getting google ads for "magicbricks panvel properties". The same happened to me after my search on amazon.com for chairs, clothes etc..

Google tracking users & using it for adsense/google ads ??

Yes, they track you through cookies. If you have a Google account logged in, they also track all of your Google searches and pretty much all of your activity on any and all Google owned services. They do say they don't track any personally identifiable information though, but it's up to you if you believe that or not. The simplest way to avoid this tracking is to use incognito browsers and not log in on any Google service or Facebook.

But yeah, quit hating on Bing guys. Haven't you watched The Amazing Spider-man? Spider-man uses Bing, and he's supposed to be quite a genius lmao. Jokes aside, it doesn't matter to Bitcoin in the grand scheme of things. This move comes with positives, such as less exposure for scam ICOs and phishing wallets. I welcome it.

[Slow death]

99% or more of the ads were scams, shitcoins and shitty ICOs, so I can kinda understand why they did it.

and we can attribute scammers to the blame for Crypto-Related ads being banned, how any company would be happy to see scammers stealing millions of dollars from innocent people and the worst is that there were few cases where scammers were found and arrested? so the only one measure that could be implemented to contain the number of scam was this "ban Crypto-Related Ads"

I wish they would just spend more resources on weeding out all the bad actors instead of a blanket ban on crypto though.

I doubt it was possible to do this, the scammers are very intelligent, they daily improve their scam skills

[7788bitcoin]

sad how crypto is getting rejected by society

It is not a new thing, all they want to do is to stop scammers from advertising their platform to collect money and for that they are banning everything related to crypto, facebook and twitter did that and it does not mean that they are against bitcoin, they just want to protect their users by not falling for the scams.

[FrueGreads]

I wonder if this will be another excuse for a sell off in cryptocurrencies. Nothing really special happened with the other add bans (facebook, twitter, google), so nothing will happen with this one again. I mean who uses bing anyway? I'm really curious to see if people learned anything from the past, or if another FUD will hit us.

This can of course affect ICOs, I wont argue with that, but it shouldn't affect bitcoin in any possible way.

[Stargazer]

It will be another big bad news for everyone who involved with the crypto world. As we are seeing many good predictions for the month of July and August but if it will happen then the crypto market may again go down! At first facebook, Then google and now Bing-Yahoo! I think now the time has come when we need a different and own search engine which will be based on the blockchain.

[bristlefront]

Microsoft-powered search engine Bing has joined other internet giants in announcing it will ban cryptocurrency-related advertisements on its network by July 2018, according to an official blog post today, May 15.

According to the statement, the main reason for the company’s decision to ban “advertising for cryptocurrency” and “cryptocurrency related products” is the current unregulated status of cryptocurrencies, which allegedly increases risk for Bing’s users:

    “Because cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, we have found them to present a possible elevated risk to our users with the potential for bad actors to participate in predatory behaviors, or otherwise scam consumers.”

As the report further says, Bing Ads tool plans to fully implement the ban worldwide between June until early July.

Bing’s crypto ads ban is the latest move in a search engine and social media crypto-boycott, initiated by Facebook in late January of this year. Google announced an analogous crypto ad ban in mid-March, and Twitter confirmed its own ban soon after.

Last week, multiple mainstream media outlets reported that Facebook is reportedly “exploring” the launch of its own cryptocurrency.

Earlier in April, the co-founder of LinkedIn told Cointelegraph that the recent crypto ad bans are, in his opinion, most likely “temporary” and due to the current absence of clear crypto market regulations.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsofts-search-engine-bing-says-it-will-ban-crypto-related-ads-by-july-2018



I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

For me it is fine since there should be a place for investors to see those crypto-related ads like ICO reviews. It is better and less annoying for some people that are not into cryptos. There is a reason why people hate it because of unlimited number of crypto ads that seems not getting their interest.

[shadyrifles]

The social media giants are showing their unity against cryptocurrency; I won't surprise if Yahoo and Quora follow the same. Cryptocurrencies are not regulated and the social media giants found a possible elevated risk to their users' this is the main reason for banning cryptocurrency and related products from the advertisement platform. The advertiser can't advertise the cryptocurrency or similar product on their search engines but the advertisers are most welcome for selling diet pills, diabetes products, and other useless affiliate marketing products.  

[zolfa]

this is bad news, I always think that when bitcoin is scarce, so, bitcoin will running but slowly.

and one of the factors that make it slow is a lot of crypto ban, lots of FUD, and also many negative factors that affect the value of bitcoin.

decisions made by bing are very clear will make crypto market unstable and make bitcoin fall.

[etin06]

Microsoft-powered search engine Bing has joined other internet giants in announcing it will ban cryptocurrency-related advertisements on its network by July 2018, according to an official blog post today, May 15.

According to the statement, the main reason for the company’s decision to ban “advertising for cryptocurrency” and “cryptocurrency related products” is the current unregulated status of cryptocurrencies, which allegedly increases risk for Bing’s users:

    “Because cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, we have found them to present a possible elevated risk to our users with the potential for bad actors to participate in predatory behaviors, or otherwise scam consumers.”

As the report further says, Bing Ads tool plans to fully implement the ban worldwide between June until early July.

Bing’s crypto ads ban is the latest move in a search engine and social media crypto-boycott, initiated by Facebook in late January of this year. Google announced an analogous crypto ad ban in mid-March, and Twitter confirmed its own ban soon after.

Last week, multiple mainstream media outlets reported that Facebook is reportedly “exploring” the launch of its own cryptocurrency.

Earlier in April, the co-founder of LinkedIn told Cointelegraph that the recent crypto ad bans are, in his opinion, most likely “temporary” and due to the current absence of clear crypto market regulations.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsofts-search-engine-bing-says-it-will-ban-crypto-related-ads-by-july-2018



I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

Let them ban it. It won't still stop the existence of crypto currency. Facebook and google have  already ban it yet no much influence on the price. Bing user are small compared to facebook and google

[Rozita]

Bing? Any one is still using Bing? Before I read this post, I had forgotten the " Bing"
Any way, banning scam ads is not a bad news.

[Kprawn]

Microsoft-powered search engine Bing has joined other internet giants in announcing it will ban cryptocurrency-related advertisements on its network by July 2018, according to an official blog post today, May 15.

According to the statement, the main reason for the company’s decision to ban “advertising for cryptocurrency” and “cryptocurrency related products” is the current unregulated status of cryptocurrencies, which allegedly increases risk for Bing’s users:

    “Because cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, we have found them to present a possible elevated risk to our users with the potential for bad actors to participate in predatory behaviors, or otherwise scam consumers.”

As the report further says, Bing Ads tool plans to fully implement the ban worldwide between June until early July.

Bing’s crypto ads ban is the latest move in a search engine and social media crypto-boycott, initiated by Facebook in late January of this year. Google announced an analogous crypto ad ban in mid-March, and Twitter confirmed its own ban soon after.

Last week, multiple mainstream media outlets reported that Facebook is reportedly “exploring” the launch of its own cryptocurrency.

Earlier in April, the co-founder of LinkedIn told Cointelegraph that the recent crypto ad bans are, in his opinion, most likely “temporary” and due to the current absence of clear crypto market regulations.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsofts-search-engine-bing-says-it-will-ban-crypto-related-ads-by-july-2018



I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

Let them ban it. It won't still stop the existence of crypto currency. Facebook and google have  already ban it yet no much influence on the price. Bing user are small compared to facebook and google

I beg to differ, since Bing's debut in 2009, the search engine's user base has grown to 524 million unique users. Google Has 7

Products With 1 Billion Users. According to Net Market Share the global marketing share percentage, in terms of the use of

Search Engines heavily favoured Google throughout 2017 - averaging a net share of 74.54%.  This again reinforces the fact

 that Google is the market leader, however, it also highlights that the "Others" such as Yahoo, Bing and Baidu etc still hold a

large audience and it would be silly to simply ignore them (averaging between 5-10% market share). - Information was

sourced from - https://www.smartinsights.com/search-engine-marketing/search-engine-statistics/

[nydiacaskey01]

Why am I not surprised about it. Bill Gates made a negative statement about Bitcoins a few days ago and it did make an impact and since I think he really wants Bitcoin to go down he followed what Twitter and Google did a few months ago and that is to dis-allow ads from Cryptocurrencies. Only difference is Twitter and Google are on top of the food chain when it comes to traffic so placing ads in those social media site will really make an impact. However Bing is not at the same level with Twitter and Google.

[cryptohoodz]

You already said it..who uses bing anyways.

It's just a legal issue. All these ICO scams can create liability problems for big companies, that's why google, FB, twitter etc. already banned it.

[addeqt]

That could be a good news and could be a bad news for windows users. According to netmarket share, Internet explorer is still own the 12% of the market. I think that is because it is the default browser of the windows pc. And since windows pc dominate the households and universities or some offices, they could get that kind of utilization. But if they tend to block those crypto related ads, I think the chance of blocking those ads will not greatly effect the users. Or if the worst came, those loyal users of bing will definitely switch to other browser which could be firefox, safari or chrome which dominate at 60% market share.  On the other hand, some people don't really been bombarded by ads. I even get irritated sometimes when ads pops.

[lzby2000]

The search engine Bing can already be seen as a response to the FB and twitter banning of ICO ads, and perhaps the social media giants have unlocked their ideas and won't allow ICO ads to spread freely on their media platforms. In the short term, this may lead to a decrease in traffic in the encrypted community, but in the long run it will be beneficial to the standard development of the community.

[eaLiTy]

I was on real estate website magicbricks.com and I searched for "panvel navi mumbai". Next day when I was on other websites, I was getting google ads for "magicbricks panvel properties". The same happened to me after my search on amazon.com for chairs, clothes etc..

Google tracking users & using it for adsense/google ads ??

These are the compromises you have to do when you are using things for free, they track everything and even sell your private details to advertisers always protect your privacy using proxy or VPN to avoid these tracking and never use the same proxy to log into your social network sites which literally negates the steps you take.
Who cares if these social networking and search engine sites ban the advertising, the only thing affected will be new ICO and they have enough platform to advertise their product.

[Mohamme]

This is not unusual, as other big media outlets have banned the use of advertisements in cryptocurrency markets.
So Microsoft's prohibition is normal.

[yojodojo21]

I have seen so many news regarding about this issue but it does not happen, first facebook issue was they are going to banned advertisement of ICO's and also google, many have said that they are also going to ban crypto related news, and now bing? How does it come? to OP, do you really believe on that kind of fraudulent news? even thou they ban crypto related ads on google,facebook,bing and any other social medias they cannot stop cryptocurrency. this is a fraudulent news. I want to suggest to owners of google and bing, ban first exchange sites so i will believe.

[Nahl]

i'm not too similar use bing even to access search engine and i was more likely to use google but i wasn't surprise about this banning because basically they want to protect people from scam cryptocurrencies but not just like other giant sites such as facebook or google i think bing decission won't have any effect for development of cryptocurrencies

[slhardy]

Look around. All crypto marketers cry because of Google's prohibitions, not the Bing's.

Bing search engine doesn't have such an influence as the Google has. That's why Bing's cautions and prohibitions have little power and make few problems to marketing campaigns of blockchains project. Should we even be bothered by the fact that Bing's going to confront the crypto?

[cryptojacklife]

1. Bing as a brand needs to maintain standards. It cannot keep on showing crypto ads as there are a lot of scams online and they cannot risk their brand image.

2.  Secondly, a lot of these ads capture user/consumer data online. With the new rules of GDPR in EU, it will be very strict on how and what the data captured will be used for. All users have the rights not to be tracked, or their personal information should not be used in any other illegal way. Unless these are clarified, it is probably best to take a precautionary stance.

[stayeduptolate]

Microsoft-powered search engine Bing has joined other internet giants in announcing it will ban cryptocurrency-related advertisements on its network by July 2018, according to an official blog post today, May 15.

According to the statement, the main reason for the company’s decision to ban “advertising for cryptocurrency” and “cryptocurrency related products” is the current unregulated status of cryptocurrencies, which allegedly increases risk for Bing’s users:

    “Because cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, we have found them to present a possible elevated risk to our users with the potential for bad actors to participate in predatory behaviors, or otherwise scam consumers.”

As the report further says, Bing Ads tool plans to fully implement the ban worldwide between June until early July.

Bing’s crypto ads ban is the latest move in a search engine and social media crypto-boycott, initiated by Facebook in late January of this year. Google announced an analogous crypto ad ban in mid-March, and Twitter confirmed its own ban soon after.

Last week, multiple mainstream media outlets reported that Facebook is reportedly “exploring” the launch of its own cryptocurrency.

Earlier in April, the co-founder of LinkedIn told Cointelegraph that the recent crypto ad bans are, in his opinion, most likely “temporary” and due to the current absence of clear crypto market regulations.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsofts-search-engine-bing-says-it-will-ban-crypto-related-ads-by-july-2018



I mean, who even uses Bing in 2018? lol

Like bing , there are other companies and even countries too who are banning and not legalising crypto currencies in their nation because of this reason only because they all the afraid of their security. Being a country, giver fears of national security like terrorism and being a company, CEO fears the hacking and this is the root cause why these people are afraid not to legalise bitcoin because there is no authorised regulating body over bitcoin and it is still decentralised.

[Donotfoolme]

we will enhance the trust in the system and bring in instutional investors.
thats what other do there making some nonesense just to bring down crypto ,

[code]

familiar situation. first, they get banned, and then they start their own cryptocurrency. correctly. to avoid competitors

[rodriguesserg967]

Oh no! Not the BING! Why, God why???!!!

Anyone still uses Bing at all?
Maybe this is their strategic plan to get more users, like grandparents and Fudders