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>“Microsoft Edge now has a creator follow feature that is enabled by default,” says Rivera in a conversation with The Verge. “It appears the intent was to notify Bing when you’re on certain pages, such as YouTube, The Verge, and Reddit. But it doesn’t appear to be working correctly, instead sending nearly every domain you visit to Bing.”

I don't believe for a second that this is a bug.

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Until called out on it, thinking that Microsoft was quite happy with "follow creator" sending Bing what urls users go to.

Another slick trick of Edge that I have noticed is that after updates, various settings can change or new ones added, particularly those that involving privacy. So users have to always be wary and vigilant about checking all settings after any update.

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