Is Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine safe?
Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine reads all browser cookies to extract affiliate codes and transmits daily telemetry including a persistent machine GUID to Microsoft servers.
The extension calls chrome.cookies.getAll() with no domain filter, retrieving cookies from every site the browser has visited, then extracts and removes any affiliate tracking cookies named PCCode or channel. On a daily schedule it sends a telemetry ping to g.ceipmsn.com containing a persistent machine GUID, browser language, OS, and extension version. It also writes affiliate tracking cookies (_NTPC, _DPC) into the bing.com cookie jar on startup to attribute user searches to an OEM or reseller channel.
Who publishes itMicrosoft Corporation - 10 other listings from the same operator, 3 of them carrying a finding
Microsoft Corporation - 10 other listings from the same operator, 3 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
7 other listings published from this account, 3.7M+ users between them. 3 of them carry a finding.
Same operator - 3 listings
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.0.0.15. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on bing.com
http://*.bing.com/* and 1 more
Read and change your data on microsoft.com
https://*.microsoft.com/*
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Store data in your browser
storage
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- www.bing.comwidely used
Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine sends data to www.bing.com. A widely used service: 29 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- g.ceipmsn.com
Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine sends data to g.ceipmsn.com. 9 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- browserdefaults.microsoft.com
Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search Engine sends data to browserdefaults.microsoft.com. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.