Is Bing Homepage, Search & Trending Topics safe?

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Bing Homepage, Search & Trending Topics is medium risk. The first time the extension activates on a fresh install (when no installer record exists in local storage), it calls chrome.cookies.getAll({}) with an empty filter — which retrieves every cookie from every site you have ever visited in this browser profile. It then scans the full list for eight cookies named PCCode, MachineID, OS, InstalledDate, InstalledTime, Market, LoggerVersion, and PackageCode. Any matches are copied into the extension's local storage and immediately deleted from the browser's cookie jar. The extension's description does not mention this behavior.

Is Bing Homepage, Search & Trending Topics safe?

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