Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not, but it’s also not spyware - it’s local, encrypted, AND optional.

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  • ifmu@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Microsoft is known for making things “optional” at first then eventually forcing it down everyone’s throats. Removing offline accounts is one of them.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes hello John Windows my microwave account name is Oobe\bypassnro

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      • r_deckard@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This also works: shift-F10 before you get to the network configuration, then type this and press enter start ms-cxh:localonly

        For either method, if you configure networking during setup, e.g. plug in an ethernet cable or give it the wi-fi password, it’ll keep returning to the online account screen. You need to do it prior to network config.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right. So you’re all panicking just in case.

      That’s what’s being swept under the rug as “alarmists being loud”.

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      • ifmu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The same way you have a lock on your front door “just in case”. It’s not emotional. It’s logical.

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      • lemmingrad@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Good morning!

        How’s my favorite genocide denialist scumbag today?

        Still alive? Surprising

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  • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Optional like how it reminds me every 3 days that it wants my info for “customization” purposes, and I can only sleep the notification for another 3 days instead of telling it to fuck off?

    They have been so predatory, at this point no one should see anything they do as benefiting end users.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If it does that, outrage will be understandable.

      Getting outraged about something they said will be 100% optional and hasn’t even released yet is just childish.

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Actual optional things are disabled by default.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So you’re saying you haven’t bothered to read about Recall at all, you just assumed it’s going to be enabled by default?

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      • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Until a windows update kicks in and somehow turns it on for the world. thanks but no thanks. I’ll be disabling this not with a reg key but with local policy or DSC if I have to use a windows machine for personal again.

        I switched to Linux 2 months ago.

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      • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Look at this bootlicker ignoring history and saying trust Microsoft.

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