Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app

If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?

Better, more comprehensive article:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/bing_wallpaper_app/

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

‘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

I actually really like bing wallpaper content. It’s unfortunate Microsoft has screwed up the rest of it so bad

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