Microsoft probes complaints of Edge leaking URLs to Bing According to Theregister.com, it is thought a bug in a recent release of Redmond’s Chromium clone appears to be passing back URLs you visit back to the Bing API. The...

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According to Theregister.com,  it is thought a bug in a recent release of Redmond’s Chromium clone appears to be passing back URLs you visit back to the Bing API.

The issue, identified by Redditor HackerMcHackface in the r/browsers subreddit last week, appears to be related to an opt-out content aggregation feature in Edge, called Collections, which offers suggestions for online creators that users may want to follow.

However, beginning with Microsoft Edge build 112.0.1722.34, the Redditor notes that the default behavior had changed. In prior versions of Edge, they noted, the “feature” was limited to a subset of social media sites, including YouTube and Pinterest. Now the scope appears to be wider.

Full story:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/26/microsoft_edge_url/

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