The app automatically installs Bing Visual Search and includes code to decrypt cookies saved in other browsers, Rivera said, and it also brings a “free” geolocation web API to the system.
The developer discovered “many” nasty tricks Microsoft integrated in Bing Wallpapers, which include trying to change the browser’s settings and set Edge as the default system browser. If the default browser isn’t Edge, the app will open the default browser after some time asking to enable the previously installed Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome extension.
This doesn’t sound “malware-like”. It sounds like just plain malware.
They are trying so hard to push everybody to linux. The only thing that has kept me using windows is game development tool chains, but even that isn’t gonna be enough to keep me on windows much longer.
The Godot Engine is getting better every day.
That is until they kicked everyone out for being “nazis”
“Megacorp learned nothing from Active Desktop being an utter fucking security disaster.” Yeah, no shit. Everything old is new again.
Microsoft produces malware, that’s nothing new.
at least malware is free
“Free as in freedom?”
“Free as in free data for Microsoft to harvest.”
Good thing normies got nothing to hide!
