Bing Wallpaper is a new app that Microsoft recently launched in the Windows Store. Offers users a convenient way to change your desktop wallpaper daily. The application includes a collection of images from around the world that have appeared on the home page of Microsoft’s search engine. There are all kinds of images, each one more beautiful. On that side fine, but there are hidden “gifts” that discourage its use.
Some developers behave like real malware sellers, filling their products with really questionable functionalities and hidden payloads that are classified as adware and/or Bloatware, problems that end up affecting privacy and security. When third-party developers do it, there is usually no bigger problem than not using their software at all. However, when Microsoft shows similar behavior the problem escalates, since 8 out of 10 computers worldwide use Windows.
Bing Wallpaper, pretty, but only on the outside
The complaint has come from the well-known Rafael Rivera. The developer assures that Bing Wallpaper It is a real nightmare for user security and privacy and defines it directly as an application “malicious”. The application automatically installs Bing Visual Search, includes code to decrypt cookies saved in other browsers, and also incorporates a “free” geolocation web API into the system.
The developer discovered “many” nasty tricks that Microsoft integrates into Bing Wallpaperincluding trying to change browser settings and setting Edge as the system’s default browser. If the default browser is not Edge, the app will open the default browser after a while and ask to enable the previously installed Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome extension.
In summary. This application changes the user’s default web browser and search engine, installs an unauthorized browser extension and contains code to inspect web browser cookies and discover the user’s geographic location. Rivera provided a list of forcibly installed extensions that users must block if they are using Chrome or Firefox.
A group of users in Reddit They have responded to Microsoft with the usual ‘love’ and the fact is that everything negative about Bing Wallpaper and that obsession with promoting its own services is repeated too frequently. In this case, some users have gone a little further and are betting on filing a class action lawsuit. Bing Wallpaper is another development that joins the large group of Unwanted and hostile adware and therefore its use is not recommended. In addition, Windows 11 and 10 already have the ability to easily change desktop wallpapers and images, there are thousands of free ones on the Internet.
Source: www.muycomputer.com
