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It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a new AI tool designed to remember everything you do on Windows. The feature that we never asked and never wanted it.

Microsoft, has done a lot to degrade the Windows user experience over the last few years. Everything from obtrusive advertisements to full-screen popups, ignoring app defaults, forcing a Microsoft Account, and more have eroded the trust relationship between Windows users and Microsoft.

It's no surprise that users are already assuming that Microsoft will eventually end up collecting that data and using it to shape advertisements for you. That really would be a huge invasion of privacy, and people fully expect Microsoft to do it, and it's those bad Windows practices that have led people to this conclusion.

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[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

For those of you that don't know about this OS and are tired of Microsoft's bullshit, you can look into supporting ReactOS as a true Windows alternative which needs it, and you feel you want to give the middle finger to Copilot, Copilot+ PC initiative, and Windows Recall. It can even be made to look like you have went back in time to the Windows XP era with the use of a theme and yet its not Windows, and could run things that you could already run in Windows 10. If even says you can fork it on Github, meaning you could choose to labor for months using it and Linux Technology to build a better OS to replace Windows using it and Linux Technology. And if you already going going FOSS by using Libra Office instead of Microsoft Office, LibraWolf instead of Firefox, and are currently looking to FOSS for your paint program and other things you use, why not look into going FOSS with your OS as well.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Is this article some kind of apple propaganda?

P. S: I fucking hate Windows.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

And yet again, install Linux. Leave Microsoft behind

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whatevs, sheeple will continue to bleet about how bad things are but not take any steps to enact change.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

Though I doubt is as bad as described, I do hope that might soft will.dig it's own grave, I would be so happy when everyone just uses Linux

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can only piss on our faces and tell us it is raining for so long.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

"It's raining, I see" says the blind man as he pisses into the wind

[–] Teknikal@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

All I want from an Os is to launch my programs of choice and not suck up my battery running unnecessary junk I couldn't care less about.

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is status quo for every large corporation. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, Roku.... They all, ALL, push boundaries to see what they can get away with to not only sell you something, but also make you the thing they sell. Sometimes they're bold enough to make it public what they're doing, sometimes, it's a leak that happens when people find out how little the company actually cares about it's users (Apple, so many user data leaks).

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love it when Apple pushes advertising that touts their focus on privacy... when in reality, they're breaching user privacy in all the ways that every other company does.

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[–] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My bigger concern is that almost every company now has it in their contracts/terms of services, that all users are not allowed to participate in a lawsuit, be it class action, or court case against them Most of them even have a maximum sue limit too! There's a lot that have a rule that initial arbitration cannot have a lawyer, but that won't be enforced.

[–] Aecosthedark@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Is that a valid and enforceable clause though, even if i clicked "i agree"?

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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Once again, the penguin was been vindicated.

[–] beaxingu@kbin.run 0 points 5 months ago

Microsoft should go further and further with this so that windows becomes worse so that less people use it.

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