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?
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jstin86457@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 months ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
Network traffic isn’t sending the screenshots lol.
piskertariot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 months ago
I'm so happy I fully moved to Linux 15 years ago.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
the vast majority of people will be OK with this
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.
semperverus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Your point was addressed in the thing they said immediately after the part you quoted
utopiah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
privacy zuckering