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Privacy and control over your Recall experience

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Microsoft has a long history of self-serving user-hostile design decisions: requiiring a Microsoft account to install Windows, ads and "recommended apps" in the OS by default, Edge nagging you when you search for alternative browsers, Windows Security "alerts" about not being logged into an MS account, etc.

You'd be a fool to think Recall will serve the user's best interests in the long run. The culture behind it is broken.

This. I simply don't trust Microsoft on any privacy matters, and Windows is good at reminding me not to trust them.

> During setup of your new Copilot+ PC, and for each new user, the user can opt into saving snapshots using Recall. If you don’t choose to opt in, it will be off by default and snapshots will not be taken or saved. You can also remove Recall entirely by using the optional features settings in Windows.

There's no further reference to removal in the article.

And I expect it to behave like one drive, where it’s impossibly difficult to remove, it reappears all the time, and if you manage to kill it then a simple misclick somewhere will revive it.

Long ago I set up my terminal program to keep a log of everything that came across the screen. It's been a game changer and I wouldn't want to live without it again. Any command line I ever ran, SQL query, results of those queries, I can search and refer back to. And it helps with smaller questions like what directory was I in when I ran this command, roughly what time was it, how many times did I run it, or am I misremembering whether I ran it yesterday or not?

I don't know if I'll use this Recall feature since I have my own solution set up already, but ignoring the typical Microsoft outrage, the general capability to have access to your history of work actions is powerful.

I definitely don't doubt that Recall would be useful to me, it actually seems like it adds an insane amount of user value. (Not just text, this is also capturing "context": "What was that purple slide that was on screen during that zoom call last month" etc.)

I just can't trust Microsoft to make anything I use willingly. Microsoft being associated with it, as well as them cranking up the tedium with every update to any software they make has entirely destroyed any benefit-of-the-doubt I would've given Recall.

If apple was doing it, everyone would be praising them. The issue is with Microsoft réputation, too many half done product, too many loophole to get user's data, too many privacy setting turning themselves back off after an update, ...

‘were’ not ‘was’, subjunctive case bro

I cannot imagine things of this sort in terminal would be useful for me, but interesting outlook for my bubble, thank you

This is gonna turn into next-level bossware. Microsoft is already providing Office usage statistics to managers. They're not gonna leave on the table the opportunity to sell detailed usage data on everything that happens on the corporate PC fleet, in nice neat dashboards so IT doesn't even have to grovel through it, to managers.

Worst MS feature ever. On-demand password breaches.

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