Privacy BUG appears in Microsoft Edge browser, sending user's digital footprint to Bing

CTOnews.com April 26 news, according to OnMSFT, The Verge and other foreign science and technology media reports, the latest version of Microsoft Edge is sending users' digital footprints to Bing API, including the history of visiting the site URL.

Catelyn Rolston (Caitlin Roulston), Microsoft's public relations director, said the matter was under investigation and should be resolved as soon as possible.

When the browser starts, the following GET request is issued:

Www.bingapis.com/api/v7/followweb/getdomainfilter?Id=F1E45C4A7B95B48AC3F411C6214F6B861D0C276B&edgechannel=stablewww.bingapis.com/api/v7/followweb/getdomainfilter?Id=F1E45C4A7B95B48AC3F411C6214F6B861D0C276B&edgechannel=stableRoulston said the problem was caused by a feature called "follow the creator" in the Edge browser.

For example, when you visit bilibili, an icon will appear on the address bar to follow the creator. The official statement reads as follows: "the purpose of this function is to notify Bing when users visit certain pages such as YouTube, The Verge and Reddit. At present, this function does not work properly and sends the history of all the websites visited by users to Bing."