Is Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine safe?

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Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine is medium risk. When the Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine extension is installed, updated, or re-enabled, its background service worker calls the Chrome cookie API with an empty filter, temporarily reading every cookie stored in your browser — including those from banking, healthcare, and other unrelated sites — to search for affiliate tracking values named 'PCCode' and 'channel'. Any matching cookies are deleted from their originating domain and stored in local extension storage, where they are used to append a partner identifier to Bing search and homepage URLs. Dynamic analysis confirmed the unfiltered cookie read occurs each time the service worker starts. No third-party cookie values were observed being transmitted to remote servers.

Is Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine safe?

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