Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoIt’s not, but it’s also not spyware - it’s local, encrypted, AND optional.
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.
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.
Actual optional things are disabled by default.
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?
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.
Until a windows update kicks in and somehow turns it on for the world.
I don’t know if this is a regional thing, but I’ve been using Windows since 3.11 and have NEVER had ONE instance of an update randomly turning on something that I’ve turned off before.
Look at this bootlicker ignoring history and saying trust Microsoft.
“Look at this fossil thinking it’s still 1990”, I guess?
Mate, did you miss how 30 years have passed? How the world change? Can you even begin to imagine the fine the EU would slap without a second thought on MS if they tried pulling something like suddenly grabbing these screenshots from users’ devices?
ifmu@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes hello John Windows my microwave account name is Oobe\bypassnro
r_deckard@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Right. So you’re all panicking just in case.
That’s what’s being swept under the rug as “alarmists being loud”.
ifmu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The same way you have a lock on your front door “just in case”. It’s not emotional. It’s logical.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The lock is there. The whole thing is encrypted.
If they somehow go through encryption, they won’t just have the EU on their arses, governments of the entire world will be after them, because they trust that this encryption system makes their data secure.
lemmingrad@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Good morning!
How’s my favorite genocide denialist scumbag today?
Still alive? Surprising