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Microsoft's official "Bing Wallpaper app" does some nasty, malware-like things to Windows (www.techspot.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno, your comments seem to have a certain tilt.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Point to a comment where I show support for nazis. Strawman arguments is all you have to defend your points. Once again you fail to formulate an objective argument.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

That is until they kicked everyone out for being “nazis”

Point to a comment where I show support for nazis.

You are the one who keep bringing up Nazi's. You can't bring it up, have people agree it's good to remove Nazi's, and then say "whoa I support the people kicked out, I don't support nazi's" after you yourself said they were kicked out for being nazis.

You're your own unreliable narrator and it is both hilarious and embarrassing.