They always keep trying again until we forget about it and it sticks forever
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I saw a comment back when they announced they were "canceling" it, saying the same thing. It seems they were right. Microsoft will do anything to get their grubby hands on as much user data as possible; of course they're not going to give up that easily.
Remember how Microsoft went to court way back in the day over monopolistic practices? Yeah whatever happened to that...
That's the strategy, yes
"The feature will also be off by default, whereas the original plan was to turn it on by default and make users go into Settings to turn it off."
So it can be turned on again whenever another update comes.
Whoops, somehow it got turned on again 🤷♂️
Unless they intend on rolling this into home only there will have to be a policy to allow you to disable it from a corporate standpoint.
Yeah, like OneDrive which was supposed to be off by default, Skype which was supposed to be off by default. They love their "Off by defaults" , because for the first few updates they're off and then suddenly during a major update you have 20 new processes running because they all have services that run even if the program's off
For those who want to escape this bullshit, Linux welcomed you with open arms and gives you control of your PC. Microsoft doesn't respect you, ditch them and move to something that will.
Microsoft should permanently recall the Recall feature.
The headlines write themselves.
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None of these companies invent things for the user anymore. It's all tracking.
Guys guys, I think you're exaggerating a bit with this feature.
I mean, what's so bad in it to be hated like this?
Whatever is so wrong in giving a company known for their awful privacy respect and incredibly high data collection they do on the computes a history of literally everything you do on your pc, key presses included?
It's encrypted! They surely won't be able to do anything with it, right?
...
Right???
Edit: typo
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So do they like plan to do something with the massive amount of hospitals using Windows?
Like it seems to me that scraping PHI might be a bad idea
Yes. They plan that all the HIPAA lawsuits they’ll fight off will cost less than all the money they’ll make from selling everyone’s private data
The solution: https://www.debian.org/
Mint is always an option too.
Mint is my go to suggestion for new people switching over.
Absolutely. I don't use it myself, but it's where I started and it's what I suggest.
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I'm a fan of powerful assistive solutions, but I'm not comfortable with something closed source and proprietary running this intimately.
In case anyone has to use Windows for certain things like I do,
HERE is a link that will provide ways to turn off Windows bullshit until you can either move over to Linux full time, or at least make your Windows partition slightly better.
Dude nice
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It’s like Microsoft doesn’t want people to upgrade to Windows 11.
You will be assimilated.
No matter what, and at the cost of absolutely everything else, the line must go up. In no way, shape, or form does anything else matter. The line. Must. Go. Up.
I already have the registry entries added to disable that shit completely
O&O ShutUp10++ is a very good tool
Linux Mint is better. No hacking necessary. It does what you want exactly as you set it.
I'm well aware of how awesome linux is.
But there's too many things I use that won't work on linux
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Can't get me this time! Between last time and this time, I successfully removed Windows from all PCs in my life.
Less voicy people will be left actually running windows.
I'll start by saying my username is quite true, but, they're gonna have to send the data back to microsoft, so couldn't someone block the ports they use?
Ports? Hah, they'll send it straight through https if they want. To the base Microsoft domain so you can't block without basically disconnecting your install. Objectively that's what any security conscious user should do.
fair enough, just thought I'd ask smarter people.
Besides it might spoil the relationship with your local NSA agent.
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