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.

  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I disagree. Monopolies are the end state of free market capitalism, and yes the economic system we experience in north America isn’t true capitalism either.

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      39 minutes ago

      I really disagree, but we haven’t seen anything approaching a truly free market for 100 years or so, so it’s really hard to say.

      That said, one of the core functions of government is to break up monopolies to keep the market free.