The official "Bing Wallpaper app" does some nasty, malware-like things to Windows
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Some third-party software companies behave like true malware sellers, packing their products with really questionable functionality and hidden payloads. When Microsoft shows the same behavior, however, Windows...

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.

        • tekato@lemmy.worldEnglish
          28·
          3 days ago

          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.

          • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            3 days 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.

            • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              I read their sentence, with “nazis” in quotes as meaning that they weren’t really nazis. As if the quotes were air quotes if said in person.

      • nick@midwest.socialEnglish
        102·
        3 days ago

        Wow. Looked at you comment history and you are not well liked. Later gator.

        • tekato@lemmy.worldEnglish
          317·
          3 days ago

          Yes, I get downvoted a lot on Lemmy, yet nobody seems to be able to say why I’m wrong on these issues. Users of Lemmy resort to downvoting when they can’t defend their arguments. It is a fact that humans are more eager to show their disapproval than approval for something, like in restaurant reviews, where the only people who bother to leave a review are those with bad experiences.

          Also, I’d be wary of basing your opinion explicitly off what other people think. You need to formulate your own thoughts if you want to retain some sort of identity.

          • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Users of Lemmy resort to downvoting when they can’t defend their arguments.

            You got absolutely obliterated because you posted two links to ‘articles,’ one of which is just some guys blog, and then refused to defend anything the articles said.

            Also you don’t ‘defend’ a counter argument. You started the argument, offered a blog as ‘proof’ of an issue, when pressed on what the blog said you backed down and refused to defend it, and you just accuse everyone around of you of not having independent thought.

            It is a fact that humans are more eager to show their disapproval than approval for something, like in restaurant reviews, where the only people who bother to leave a review are those with bad experiences.

            YOU LITERALLY DID THIS. A guy said ‘The Godot Engine is getting better every day.’ in a post about Microsoft screwing up an app and you, yes, you started complaining about the team behind the engine! You’re like the living embodiment of irony, hahahahahaha