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Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app (ghacks.net)
486sx33 18 minutes ago [-]
I actually really like bing wallpaper content. It’s unfortunate Microsoft has screwed up the rest of it so bad
demarq 11 hours ago [-]
If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?
netsharc 10 hours ago [-]
Indeed...

Article says: > It is rather sad to see that Microsoft is implementing behaviors in some of its apps that is generally only found in malware apps.

Mate, have you seen their OSes?

Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license, where it's possible to disable more of its telemetry.

fransje26 1 hours ago [-]
> Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license

Any pointers on how to approach that?

archerx 7 hours ago [-]
I have disabled windows 10 updates because of their behavior, no way in hell will I ever use windows 11.

What is Microsoft thinking? If they can’t get windows right why would I put my business in Microsoft’s hands with Azure?

bertman 10 hours ago [-]
MortyWaves 10 hours ago [-]
I thought that Windows 10 or 11 Explorer/desktop settings had the ability to get a “photo of the day” for the desktop background?

Or is that only for the Lock Screen

rahkiin 7 hours ago [-]
‘It would be annoying to consistently push people to using Bing, so lets detect whether they are already using Bing in a browser by decrypting cooking.’

Instead of, you know, not pushing Bing

kevincox 10 hours ago [-]
On GNOME one been using https://github.com/neffo/bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension and it doesn't seem to contain any malware.
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