Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)

I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yep. I’ve set up Windows a few times recently, and they don’t give even the slightest consideration for your settings. Few days later, they changed right back.

  They will be configured to benefit Microsoft first. Maybe not immediately. But it sounds like a losing game.

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  • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You need to make a Powershell script or batch that uninstalls/turns off the feature and then make a scheduled task that runs the ps1/bat at login.

    Its insane that this is what you have to do to keep this shit off your system, but it’s effective.

    I had to do this with New Outlook because it kept reinstalling after Windows updates.

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• ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They “trust me” dumb fucks

  May not have been Gates that said it, but it embodies an attitude which appears prevalent throughout big business.

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  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think that was The Zuck.

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    • ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You would be correct.

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s Windows 11 IoT LTSC if you really need Windows, but Microsoft is going to continue to fuck its users, and I don’t know why people in the know would choose to continue to use an OS that’s actively working against them when non-corporate alternatives exists (Linux or for the more niche people, BSD, Haiku, Redox)

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think PCVR works on Linux yet. The gaming support on Linux being driven largely by Valve is removing a lot of the reasons for consumers to use Windows, though. I wonder how long before big corporations push back on this Microsoft spyware, though.

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      • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t own a VR headset, but I thought SteamVR worked fine on Linux.

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• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can’t trust Microsoft.

  Always has been.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It really hasn’t though. MS used to make money selling Windows and other software licenses for shit that you owned. Back in the day before personal data was The New Oil.

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    • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I used Windows back then. There was already EEE as far back as Netscape Navigator

      Then there is the whole “they stole from Apple who stole from Xerox” before that.

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