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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    3 hours ago

    How do you save a picture? Where is Downloads? How do you apply a saved picture as a wallpaper?

    These are confusing questions to boomers and Gen Z.

    Why not have a simple app which “automatically” does all the hard work (just in exchange of a little of your data)?