Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  theverge.com/…/windows-11-microsoft-ai-features-c…

  I don’t care how much Microsoft tries to assure me that a screen scanning and indexing software can be toggled off. I don’t want that kind of spyware on my computer at all.

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  • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right, so when you said "forced it on everyone" you meant "the feature existing at all even if it's optional".

    See, I don't have a problem with the latter, that's legitimate. But you implied the former, and the former is false.

    Now, I don't like the feature and I absolutely turned it off the moment it (finally) got patched into my supported PCs. But it's worth noting that similar features are present on Android phones (from all the way back on Google Assistant to the upcoming Magic Cue), Apple phones (via Visual Intelligence and Siri) and other PC and phone manufacturers. I recommend turning them all off, but this isn't a Windows-specific thing, it's a pretty widespread fad.

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    • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. It’s malware on my computer against my will (or would have been, had I not switched). I’m not comforted that I can supposedly toggle the malware off. I don’t like it on any platform. Your dismissiveness and attempted normalization of corporate spyware is disconcerting.

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      • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I'd argue I'm doing the opposite.

        I was turning this stuff off when my Google and Samsung phones kept suggesting that they could do searches based on the content of my phone screen or my camera feed. It's only "normalization" in that it's... you know, actually normal and widespread. I don't think people are too alarmed now, I think they weren't alarmed enough when the first wave of "smart assistants" started doing this like a decade ago.

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• DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Recall

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  • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This backlash prompted Microsoft to postpone its rollout.[2][4] Microsoft changed the feature to opt-in and provided instructions for how to remove it.

    Not something “forced on everyone”?

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  • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, that's toggleable on settings and off on default. I also remapped the copilot button back to being right click.

    I mean, they're pretty useless features and I wish they had spent more time working on better stuff, but... you know, I turned it off.

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Microsoft: he thinks it’s actually off lmao

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      • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I'm so exhausted of social media nonsense latching onto meme crap to push preconceived narratives and flipping over to ignoring reality altogether the moment any facts at all don't fit their dumb little package of memes.

        You know what, I hope it's not actually off and anybody with the trivial means to check what their Windows PC is sending to the mothership notices so we can get the EU to GDPR the crap out of them and build some nice highway somewhere with the money.

        In the meantime, go do conspiracy theories over on Twitter. There's plenty of real stuff to be mad about at Microsoft without having to make shit up.

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