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Comment by ToucanLoucan | Hacker News Reader

> On the surface, this sounds like a cool feature

It really doesn't. Not a single person I've spoken to likes the idea of this, at all, and I'm not talking just tech people. Every last person I've spoken to of all ages and from all walks of life at best is like, "I can turn that off, right?"

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I have been using Rewind.ai on macOS and this company got a crazy investment. Many people like the idea. Many just don't trust Microsoft.

I'm gonna go ahead and invoke the Juicero Rebuttal -- the standard rebuttal to the idea that large VC investments into an idea mean it's a good idea.

I don't trust Microsoft or anyone else with unfettered access to my screen. 1-800-FUK-THAT

unless this startup manages to get OS vendors to bundle it with their OS install and turn it on by default, it's not a good comparison.

My wife's jaw literally dropped when she first heard from me about the kind of fuckery-duckery Microsoft is trying to pull here. She's been an Apple girl since forever, no fan of Microsoft, and not particularly tech-savvy, but she knew exactly the implications of Recall and immediately figured out that it was a whole new level of awful, even for Microsoft.

Kind of hypocritical of her then isn't it, given Apple has a horrible history of collecting data also?

I for one built something like this on Linux. It takes a screenshot every few seconds, when there is recent mouse or keyboard activity. Then applies OCR on the screen shots and indexes them. It was fun, but I don't want the overhead of maintaining it long term.

Your computer, your software, your data, your freedom. Now imagine a stranger doing this to you and it's not that different from a rootkit.

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