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Twitter's rebrand to X is causing scam alerts on Microsoft Edge

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, the social media platform is causing Microsoft's Edge browser to throw up a warning, indicating some sort of security problem. It seems to be related to how Edge and other Chromium-based web browsers deal with favicons . With the Twitter rebrand being so sudden, Edge likely thinks X is a scam. The security alert prompts users to review the icon update and reads,"If this web app is trying to trick you into thinking it's a different app, uninstall it."points out, PWA is working as intended.

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