It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a new AI tool designed to remember everything you do on Windows. The feature that we never asked and never wanted it.

Microsoft, has done a lot to degrade the Windows user experience over the last few years. Everything from obtrusive advertisements to full-screen popups, ignoring app defaults, forcing a Microsoft Account, and more have eroded the trust relationship between Windows users and Microsoft.

It’s no surprise that users are already assuming that Microsoft will eventually end up collecting that data and using it to shape advertisements for you. That really would be a huge invasion of privacy, and people fully expect Microsoft to do it, and it’s those bad Windows practices that have led people to this conclusion.

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      5 months ago

      It’s X.

      Stop deadnaming X.

      Anyone still clinging to the remnants of its former existence, please close your account. Stop kidding yourself.

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        5 months ago

        I’ll stop deadnaming Twitter when Musk stops deadnaming his trans daughter.

        And for the record, I’ve never used Twitter. It’s always kinda sucked. Now it really sucks.

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          5 months ago

          Musk is a complete shithead and that’s not gonna happen.

          Calling it Twitter is only going to accommodate the people that refuse to get off that nazi network.

          Cause you know Musk gets off on the hate of people still calling it Twitter, exactly because how he treats deadnaming.