I intentionally installed the Xbox Game Bar a few years ago. After doing so, it associated my Xbox login with my Windows PC, and linked the 2, switching my Windows10 user to my Xbox login.
Hard pass.
My response was to switch to Linux.
Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests
jstin86457@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m happily typing this from a Linux machine but it pisses me off that the vast majority of people will be OK with this, won’t know about it, or won’t care.
Big Tech has learned how to perfectly boil the frog.
piskertariot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
I'm so happy I fully moved to Linux 15 years ago.
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 days ago
privacy zuckering
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 days ago
I feel like you don’t even understand what this is going by what you just said. Unless you literally turn this feature on, then open the Xbox game bar and go to the widget and select to use it - it’s not just some “always on” thing, you have to open it to use it - then why would anyone care about this?
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Unless you literally turn this feature on, then open the Xbox game bar and go to the widget and select to use it - it’s not just some “always on” thing, you have to open it to use it - then it doesn’t do anything.
“You can disable the Gaming Copilot widget from the game bar, however from experimentation so far the network traffic is still running with the user interface not open — I don’t know if this is a feature or a bug.”
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
Network traffic isn’t sending the screenshots lol.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t think the vast majority of Windows users are even aware of the Xbox Game Bar to begin with, let alone all the features there.