Privacy Concerns: Microsoft Edge Sends Your Browsing History to Bing.

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Privacy Concerns: Microsoft Edge Sends Your Browsing History to Bing.
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Microsoft Edge browser is reportedly sending URLs of nearly every page visited by users to its Bing API website, according to Reddit users. The latest version of Edge sends a request to bingapis.com with the full URL of the page. Microsoft is investigating the issue, which appears to be part of a poorly implemented new feature in Edge that was intended to notify Bing when users are on certain pages, but instead sends nearly every domain visited to Bing.

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