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The Internet Compares Microsoft’s Bing Wallpaper App to Malware

Bing Wallpaper app comes with questionable features such as automatic installation of Bing Visual Search, a web geolocation API, and mechanisms to push users towards using Bing as the default search engine and Microsoft Edge as the preferred browser, according to Engineer Rafael Rivera. The app also examines and decrypts cookie files in Firefox, Edge, and Chrome, and uses manipulative tactics to get users to install Microsoft Bing Search extension.

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