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Android: MS SwiftKey redirects to Bing

Wudang

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This has been driving me nuts. I have an Android tablet (Lenovo P11 I like it) with Microsoft SwiftKey and it's been great. Recently I noticed in chrome, to forestall argument I use it for Google products and use FF, opera, and duckduckgo, that when I tapped a suggested search the results would show in Bing not Google. Obviouslymy immediate thought was a browser hijack. I downloaded and ran multiple malware scanners with no issues.
Today I stumbled on a post where someone said they removed SwiftKey and the problem disappeared. A quick look and SwiftKey now has AI you can't turn off which drives suggested searches to Bing
Gave a 1 star review and uninstalled it. Too bloody annoying
Shame as I've used it for years and my muscle memory now trips me up.
 
Wudang said:
This has been driving me nuts. I have an Android tablet (Lenovo P11 I like it) with Microsoft SwiftKey and it's been great. Recently I noticed in chrome, to forestall argument I use it for Google products and use FF, opera, and duckduckgo, that when I tapped a suggested search the results would show in Bing not Google. Obviouslymy immediate thought was a browser hijack. I downloaded and ran multiple malware scanners with no issues.
Today I stumbled on a post where someone said they removed SwiftKey and the problem disappeared. A quick look and SwiftKey now has AI you can't turn off which drives suggested searches to Bing
Gave a 1 star review and uninstalled it. Too bloody annoying
Shame as I've used it for years and my muscle memory now trips me up.
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It's been directing searches to a Bing search results' page for over a year.
 
Probably. It only seems to happen on Chrome and not Firefox or Duckduckgo browsers where I've set Ecosia and duckduckgo as the search engines. I only use chrome and Google if those two aren't giving me good results.
 
Microsoft replied to my 1 star review with
Hi Rob, we apologize for the inconvenience caused to you. Related to your concern: Open Microsoft SwiftKey app > Tap on 'Rich input' > Disable 'Microsoft deep search'. Your support and cooperation are greatly appreciated!
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I haven't tried it as I uninstalled it. More importantly I've lost trust in the developers. Browser hijacks is not a pattern they should be adopting.
 
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