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jrapine
Jan 23, 2020Brass Contributor
Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployOffice/microsoft-search-bing Guys... you just can't do this. It's fine if you want to develop a browser extension, but it needs to be an "opt-in." Most admin...
jcampbellburns
Jan 23, 2020Copper Contributor
I sent a message to Google through Chrome's feedback mechanism advising of this issue and suggesting they block the automatic installation of this extension. I'd suggest anyone reading this do the same for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and any other browsers which support third-party extensions.
It is considered a bad practice to push software (extensions are software) into a a production environment which a) you have not tested the software in, and b) you have not obtained prior approval to install software in. For a company as large as Microsoft to do this is ludicrous and I hope the various notices sent out about this were meant for April 1st.